Re: [CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

2015-02-27 Thread Dave Burns
Apparently CentOS-7 - Base is failing, what does that mean? How do I contact the upstream for the repo? How do I find a working upstream? More info from command execution: do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out

[CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

2015-02-27 Thread Dave Burns
I just installed centos 7, yum is acting strange, experiencing RPC time-outs. Sometimes when I disable the additional repos (epel and rpmforge) it seems to make things act normal. But not this time (see below). Could I have some misconfiguration? Network glitch? What hypotheses should I be

Re: [CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

2015-02-27 Thread Thomas Eriksson
On 02/27/2015 01:11 PM, Dave Burns wrote: Apparently CentOS-7 - Base is failing, what does that mean? How do I contact the upstream for the repo? How do I find a working upstream? More info from command execution: do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out

Re: [CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

2015-02-27 Thread Dave Burns
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: do_ypcall is a NIS error message. (Previous NIS was called yellow pages; the yp in do_ypcall is a reference to that). Maybe you have hosts: files nis in /etc/nsswitch.conf or something else that's causing the OS to

Re: [CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

2015-02-27 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:38:06PM -1000, Dave Burns wrote: What makes you think NIS is involved? Is Errno 12 a clue? I tried searching for (do_ypcall: clnt_call: rpc: timed do_ypcall is a NIS error message. (Previous NIS was called yellow pages; the yp in do_ypcall is a reference to that).

Re: [CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

2015-02-27 Thread Thomas Eriksson
On 02/27/2015 04:16 PM, Dave Burns wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: do_ypcall is a NIS error message. (Previous NIS was called yellow pages; the yp in do_ypcall is a reference to that). Maybe you have hosts: files nis in /etc/nsswitch.conf or

Re: [CentOS] yum causing RPC timed out?

2015-02-27 Thread Dave Burns
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Thomas Eriksson thomas.eriks...@slac.stanford.edu wrote: This has nothing to do with yum. You are using NIS for name lookup and your NIS server is not responding. NIS is working fine, at least, for what I expect it to do. What makes you think NIS is