Ralph Shumaker wrote:
I decided to try something different. Frequently (for the last month or
so), trying to do anything with yum requires the switch
"--disablerepo=rpmforge". The first time I encountered the problem, the
header from rpmforge would get about 70k before it died. And it was
consistent like that for many days. Then one day (right after posting
the problem to a kplug forum) it started working. But that was
short-lived and started doing the same thing again but this time choking
consistently at 124k.
But I'm tired of using that switch, so I decided to try to get the
header file another way. Firefox choked at about the same place. But
then Firefox would not try again. I'd click on the file, but nothing
would happen after the first time. So I tried with Konqueror.
With Konqueror, at 12%, I got a dialog telling me that the connection
was broken. So I clicked on the file again, and Konqueror gave me the
option to resume. I chose that option. Then the same thing happened at
24%. Then again at 36%, 48%, 60%, 72%, 85%, and finally 97%. The next
resume grabbed the rest.
I am about to chown the file to root:root and move the file into the
appropriate yum directory and see if it works (it does). I'm a little
concerned that the file is the result of *8* resumes. 8 breaks in the
download. I hope the resume function is reliable (seems ok).
But what intrigues me is that each choke was every 12.?%, because that
is just too consistent to be coincidence.
Any ideas?
Why don't you just set enabled=0 in the /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo
file to reflect that you don't want to use the rpmforge repository by
default? If you do that, then if you DO want to use the repository, you
use it like this:
# yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install some-software-package
One thing you should so is clean out the yum cache, because it sometimes
gets munged and starts to act weird.
# yum clean all
The next time you run yum it will download all the header files again
and rebuild its cache.
Gus
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