At Sat, 29 May 2010 01:53:47 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 2010, David wrote:
Now I'm able to update device-mapper on i386 machine, BTW please find this post..
"[CentOS] metadata cache corruption: cleared -> fixing in progress"
Thank you for pointing people at a solution that should largely (mod residual mirror skew and local 'dinking' on yum configurations) work at this point, David
The information relayed through the day in IRC and on the main mailing list reflected what was known as it was known, what was likely, and how it was being approached.
In back control channels, the CentOS team was studying the matter, testing retrievals, passing updates to public facing parts of the group, and updating findings and possible fixes (and thus eta to convergences). This was available and passed along to public facing team members as the earth rotated through the day. Let's consider it an unplanned trial shift in approach toward more openness on matters which have historically been less visible, and see how it worked out
There were at most handful of 'non-insider' posters today (Heller, Roth, Cox, Nichols, Charm) and I think three relevant bugs, which bugs should all be addressed by now. As one person noted: 'The world was not coming to an end' but I see: 16:58:06 UTC Heller "*ALL* of the public mirrors are broken"
later 01:39:51 UTC next UTC day: "*I* never claimed it was the end of the world. Just noticed a problem and posted a question to the list about it"
<dryly>and this knowledge of ALL mirrors with just a dial-up connection</> That is sure not how I read his Chicken Little assertion; I see a cry of 'Wolf' and alarmism as a reward
Since it is not uncommon for me (on dialup) to experience all sorts of network issues (duh), I get to watch as yum (which is not interurptable and seems to assume that any network issues are always with the remote side and never with the local side -- yum seems not to have been coded with dialup in mind) downloads from each server in turn and seeing the download fail. *Usually* it fails on a few servers and eventually completes the download on one. When all of the public mirrors (on the mirrorlist yum fetched) failed *with the same error* I figured that something was wrong somewhere, so I reported it to the Centos list. *I* was not alarmed or thinking the world was coming to an end or anything dire. Just wanted to let people know there seemed to be a problem.