The trouble with yum /installing Mol...

[Eric D]

Hi, what is it with Belgians and the Dutch and YellowDogLinux? :)

As you've figured out: the reason you're getting the 104 errors is that yum 
is using the default server provided by YellowDog is overwhelmed (since it 
is the default server for all installs).

I'd go back to the original yum.conf (if you still have it) and try adding a 
line for each of the servers (and commenting out the default ones with a # 
sign at the start of the line).

This is what my yum.conf looks like (care of WebMin... allows me to access 
my machine when on computers lacking ssh):

[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest

[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 base
#baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/RPMS.main/
baseurl=http://ydl.osuosl.org/yum/3.0/RPMS.main/

[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 updates
#baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/3.0/RPMS.updates/
baseurl=http://ydl.osuosl.org/yum/3.0/RPMS.updates/

[fresh]
name=Somebodies fresh updates
baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/yellowdog/3.0/ppc/freshrpms/

PS Adding the "Fresh" updates allows you access to FireFox and Mozilla 1.6 
(vs. the 1.4 that comes with the machine). For FireFox: yum install FireFox, 
for Mozilla: yum update (or is it upgrade?) mozilla.

Since you're on dial-up things are going to take forever to d/l.

PS For MOL I developed my own solution to the problem of getting it to run 
(the default MOL YDL install _does not _ work out of the box).

Rather than fixing MOL to work with the kernel I fixed it so that the kernel 
would work with MOL. MOL 0.90.69 (the one with YDL) has its mol-kmod built 
using the 2.4.blahblah.22fSMP kernel.

The kernel installed with YDL is .22f (the single processor version). I 
merely replaced the .22f kernel with .22fSMP (there are lots of sources of 
info on how to replace kernels out there... not that hard, especially on Old 
World Beige G3 or 604 machines) and it works (the kernels are found in 
/boot).

On my Beige G3/266:
>uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-2fsmp #1 SMP Sun Nov 9 16:00:18 EST 2003 
ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux


PS Check out the August archives of the mailing list at www.maconlinux.com 
for hints on getting YDL 3.0.1 working with MOL (not doing things my way) by 
doing a recompile.

Eric.

>From: <markov at tele2.be>
>Reply-To: Yellow Dog Linux General Discussion List 
><yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>To: yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>Subject: The trouble with yum /installing Mol...
>Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 20:28:50 +0200
>
>I'm installing mol, and yumming downto the single processor
>kernel.
>
>I get the following problem when I replace one line in /etc/yum.conf:
>every ten minutes I get:
>IOError: [Errno 104] Connection reset by peer
>
>This is not funny, I restart and get further (it starts at the point where 
>it ends..
>
>
>I then  decide to take the yum file from:
>http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Configuring+YDL/Kernel+Errors+and+Mac+On+Linux
>because I'm using a dial in (free in belgium with tele2 till end 2004 ;-) 
>and think this
>server might be better, if it does not throw me out.
>
>But then I get:
>
>[root at localhost root]# yum install kernel
>Gathering package information from servers
>Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.01 updates
>Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/yum", line 44, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "yummain.py", line 141, in main
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 655, in get_package_info_from_servers
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 104, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
>ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
>
>I know what it is, the guy at sharplabs should put his file in ascii,
>I guess there are some chars in it that can't be copied...
>(copying from html deletes CRs or so & other stuff...)
>
>When I do yum clean, I get:
>yum clean
>Gathering package information from servers
>Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux 3.01 updates
>Getting headers from: Yellow Dog Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/yum", line 44, in ?
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "yummain.py", line 141, in main
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 655, in get_package_info_from_servers
>   File "clientStuff.py", line 104, in HeaderInfoNevralLoad
>ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
>
>
>I can of course replace /yum.conf whit the one that worked for some
>miniutes, but it lmight be better to have the fresrpms site...
>Will I have to type it in?  Or is there another error??
>
>Marc
>
>
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