Thanks Jim! I will give yum a try. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Perrin" <jperrin at gmail.com> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:15 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Timeout While Retrieving Package >> I am trying to get the latest updates and I keep getting the error >> message: >> >> "Error while retrieving package kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL. The Message was: >> Timed Out" >> > > How are you trying to update? via yum, or up2date? > >> Two questions: >> >> 1. Whay is this happening? > > Depends on what you're using. Mostly, whichever update server you're > connecting to isn't responding for some reason. Or your system isn't > getting the response, either because of a firewall or busted proxy. >> 2. Can I change the "Timeout" parameter to allow for more time? > > Depends on what you're using. > > >> Note: I have checked only the Kernal option when running Up2Date thinking >> this may help. > > Oh. You're using up2date. Up2date is not a tool I'd recommend using. > It 'works', but it doesn't handle yum repos as well as it could. You > should try using yum from the terminal with 'yum update'. There is a > timeout option in yum that you can change. By default I believe it is > set at 30s. You can read about this in the documentation for yum. > > > > > -- > "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety'' > Benjamin Franklin 1775 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >