[PlanetCCRMA] Problem with installing RPMs

[Christophe T]

2007/5/14, Ben Blechman <benblecgmail.com>:
> >I imagine you are able to browse the web from that machine?
> Yes, and I was able to install the entire Fedora 6 upgrade which was several
> hundred MB.
>
> >What is your network configuration and how are you connecting the machine
> >to the Internet?
> DSL -> DSL Router -> Ethernet cable -> built in Ethernet on Dell 4550.  I
> just accepted default options for Fedora 6, and everything else, including
> email, web, and Fedora upgrade is working fine.
>
> Is there a repository mirror or something I could try?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fernando Lopez-Lezcano" <nandoccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> To: "Ben Blechman" <benblec@gmail.com>
> Cc: <planetccrma@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Problem with installing RPMs
>
>
> > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:33 -0700, Ben Blechman wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm new to this mailing list, new to linux, and trying to install
> >> planet CCRMA.  I am an advanced Windows user.
> >>
> >> I've followed the steps on the CCRMA website to install Fedora 6, I've
> >> upgraded Fedora 6, and everything has gone relatively smoothly up to
> >> now.  I'm getting the following error:
> >>
> >> [root@localhost benb]# yum install planetccrma-coreLoading
> >> "installonlyn" plugin
> >> Setting up Install Process
> >> Setting up repositories
> >> core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
> >> 00:00
> >> planetcore                100% |=========================|  951 B
> >> 00:00
> >> planetextras              100% |=========================|  951 B
> >> 00:00
> >> planetccrma               100% |=========================|  951 B
> >> 00:00
> >> updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB
> >> 00:00
> >> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB
> >> 00:00
> >> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> >> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================|  64 kB
> >> 00:31
> >> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/mirror/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz:
> >> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out
> >> Trying other mirror.
> >> Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from planetextras: [Errno 256]
> >> No more mirrors to try.
> >> [root@localhost benb]#
> >>
> >>
> >> Any ideas?  Workarounds?
> >
> > Hmm, it would look like somehow there's a connectivity problem to the
> > repository. I imagine you are able to browse the web from that machine?
> > What is your network configuration and how are you connecting the
> > machine to the Internet?
> >
> > -- Fernando
> >
Well sometimes it happens to me the same way, I have no explation...
It just works again later. It happens also especially with the livna
repo. Many times it works fine some little time after. You can try
"yum clean all" and then try again the install.

What I use to do is disable the problematic repo(s) (I use kyum to do
that), in order to be able to use still yum in those moments.
With livna, I generally uninstall the repo (rpm
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm) and Install the repo again.

That's quite annoying so if someone knows another
method/explanation... I'm also interested!



-- 
Christophe T