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

Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr
Thu Jun 30 19:07:52 UTC 2011



m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> ken wrote:
> <snip>
>> So, shifting into work-around mode... I used wget to download
>> glibc-common (the troublesome file) to another machine.  No problem.
>> Then I scp'd it to the problem machine-- again no problem-- and
>> successfully installed it there using rpm.
>
> A strong recommendation: rpm -e, then yum localinstall. That way, yum's
> d/b will be correct.

yum doesn't have a db of installed packages, it relies on rpm for that. 
(fortunately!!)




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