Well, do a fresh install instead, if this does not work for you.
-upgrade is known to misbehave now and then.
Dima

On Sep 20, 4:10 pm, samrat <samluvs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The problem still persists. After following the solution that Jan
> provided i got errors; i am posting the last couple of lines:
>
> IOError: ('http error', 407, 'Proxy Authentication Required',
> <httplib.HTTPMessage instance at 0x11eb8170>)
> Error getting new packages!
>
> On searching some more here i got some solution where Prof. Stein had
> mentioned about changing httpd.conf of the apache server. I am unable
> to fing out the post now and i think that that was about sage
> notebook.
>
> Now i tried to modify httpd.conf as follows but the error persists. I
> am not too sure about modifying httpd.conf.
>
> <IfModule mod_proxy.c>
> ProxyRequests On
> <Proxy *>
>    Order deny,allow
>    Deny from all
>    Allow from sagemath.org
> </Proxy>
>
> ProxyVia On
>
> <VirtualHost *:80>
>    ServerName sagemath.org
>    ProxyPass /home/samrathttp://sagemath.org:8000/
>    ProxyPassReverse /home/samrathttp://sagemath.org:8000/
>    ErrorLog /etc/httpd/logs/proxy-server.log
>    <Location />
>       DefaultType text/html
>    </Location>
> </VirtualHost>
>
> I have also tried to do something like this:
>
> export http_proxy="http://
> username:passw...@my_proxy_server:my_port_number/"
>
> What else do i need to do?
>
> On Sep 13, 11:45 am, Jan Groenewald <j...@aims.ac.za> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi
>
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:00:21PM -0700, samrat wrote:
> > > Yes i do use a proxyserver. I did make some changes in a couple of
> > > *.conf files as suggested by the CentOS team but it seems that it is
> > > not yet complete for sage to upgrade flawlessly. I'll browse some more
> > > and try to rectify the problem. I'll report failures or successes
> > > soon.
>
> >http://docs.python.org/library/urllib.html:
>
> > The urlopen() function works transparently with proxies which do not 
> > require authentication. In a Unix or Windows environment, set the 
> > http_proxy, or ftp_proxy environment variables to a URL that identifies 
> > theproxyserver before starting the Python interpreter. For example (the '%' 
> > is the command prompt):
>
> > % http_proxy="http://www.someproxy.com:3128";
> > % export http_proxy
> > % python
>
> > Replace 'someproxy' with your real settings.
> > The last python would be 'sage -upgrade' in your case.
> > I advise adding a trailing slash ("/") to the http_proxy setting.
> > I have seen apps fail due to it not being there.
>
> > regards,
> > Jan
>
> > --
> >    .~.
> >    /V\     Jan Groenewald
> >   /( )\    www.aims.ac.za
> >   ^^-^^

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