[CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out - More info

ken gebser at mousecar.com
Thu Jun 30 15:44:24 UTC 2011


On 06/30/2011 11:40 AM ken wrote:
> On 06/30/2011 11:21 AM John Doe wrote:
>> From: ken <gebser at mousecar.com>
>>
>>> So I tried using wget to download RPMs from a few mirrors.  I was able
>>> to successfully one whose size is about 5.5M, but the others all stop
>>> downloading around 1M.  Then I tried ftp... same deal.  This might be
>>> the reason for the "socket error" in yum.
>> When you say "stop downloading", what do you mean?
>> Clean stop?  Network error message?  Filesystem?
>> Maybe you could try to wget to /dev/null and see if it goes further?
>> Or try to strace a wget to see what happens...
>>
>> JD
> 
> Sorry, I should have been clearer.  What happens is that the download
> simply hangs.  Doing ftp I turn on the 'hash' option so the ftp server
> prints a # for every 1k (or something?).  It'll print a half a screen
> full of #s then stop; and I won't get the "ftp>" prompt back, even
> should I wait a half hour for it.
> 
> Using wget it's pretty much the same idea.  On the left of the display
> it'll show something like this:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> # wget
> http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/CentOS/5.6/updates/i386/RPMS/glibc-common-2.5-58.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
> --2011-06-30 11:35:44--
> http://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/CentOS/5.6/updates/i386/RPMS/glibc-common-2.5-58.el5_6.4.i386.rpm
> Resolving ftp.linux.ncsu.edu... 152.1.2.172
> Connecting to ftp.linux.ncsu.edu|152.1.2.172|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 17244521 (16M) [application/octet-stream]
> Saving to: `glibc-common-2.5-58.el5_6.4.i386.rpm'
> 
>  5% [=>                         ] 1,029,216   --.-K/s  eta 23m 10s
> -------------------------------------------------------
> 
> and just freeze there... except the right two numbers (following "eta")
> will continue to climb higher... it stays at "5%" and "1,029,216"
> doesn't change, and there's no activity between those two numbers.  In
> short, the download just stops or freezes.
> 

One more thing: To exit from the wget above, I have to do a Ctrl-C.
Then I get this error code:

# echo $?
130

It might just mean "user hit Ctrl-C", I don't know, haven't tried to
look it up yet.




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