Disconnections from yum

[Harvey Ussery]

Donn Tarris wrote:

> Hello,
> I've noticed that when attempting to "yum" updates I'm being 
> consistently dropped and have to re-enter the command to continue. Is 
> this common? 

Yes--because you are using the main YDL mirror site, which stays pretty 
busy and so you get "dumped" due to the heavy traffic. Solution: Config 
your yum.conf to point to a different mirror site. Below is a previous 
post I hope will help.    Good luck,    --Harvey

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Hi John,     What's happening is that the YDL site has a lot of download 
traffic on it (just about any time), so when you try to do your updates 
from their site you often get "bumped off" due to the overload. I just 
reconfig'd /etc/yum.conf last night to deal with this very problem, so I 
hope my solution will work for you.

Take a look at your /etc/yum.conf file:
cat  /etc/yum.conf

Note that there are two sections in the config file that point to URLs 
for downloads--one for [base] ending in ....RPMS.main/ and one for 
[updates] ending in .....RPMS.updates/     Both those URLs point to the 
main YDL site, right? Well, there are other mirror sites you can use 
with less traffic--here's the link:
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/resources/ftp_mirrors.shtml#sites
Follow that link & pick a likely mirror, and copy its URL for RPMS.main/ 
and its URL for RPMS.updates/ to the appropriate places in your 
yum.conf. (Note that you will be >>replacing<< the current lines in your 
config with the new URL lines.) Once that is done, you can run yum 
update or whatever & will have a much better chance of completing your 
update because of smaller amount of traffic on the alternate mirror site.

By the way, before starting any of this, it wd be a good idea to make a 
backup copy of your /etc/yum.conf file (say, to /etc/yum.conf.orig). 
That's >always< a good idea when you are about to make a change to a 
basic config file--thus, if things get real bolixed up, you can always 
retrieve your original config & start over.

Also when working with a basic config file like yum, you will of course 
need to make the changes as root (or thru su whatever--I always just 
make a full change to root).

Here is a copy of my yum.conf after I made the URL changes. Note, 
though, that I am using 3.0--your URLs for 3.0.1 will be slightly 
different.

If you have any questions or trouble making any of this happen, just 
post.   Good luck.    --Harvey

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[harvey@localhost harvey]$ cat /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest

[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
baseurl=http://ydl.oregonstate.edu/yum/3.0/RPMS.main/


[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
baseurl=http://ydl.oregonstate.edu/yum/3.0/RPMS.updates/


[harvey@localhost harvey]$

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John B wrote:

> Hi, I just installed YDL 3.0.1 by itself on a iMac. the install went 
> fine, I formatted as unallocated. I installed the workstation version 
> of the packages. the Os works fine, but I noticed a lot of security 
> updates that are needed on the ydl website.
> So I logged in as a su, in  the konsole shell.
> Running `yum update', it will start to dl header files but then I get 
> a message :
>
> `IOError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer'. followed by a url of 
> another header, then it just stalls.
>
> I get the same error if I try to run `yum update kernel' the same 
> thing happens during any yum commands besides --help.
>
> this is my second day working in Linux so if I sould a little lost, 
> that is why.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John B
>
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