[CentOS] yum list updates error

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Fri Jun 9 16:42:37 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 11:27 -0500, Melinda Odom wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I get this error when running yum list updates
>  
>  
> [root at godslove etc]# yum list updates
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: CentOS-3 - Base
> retrygrab() failed for:
>   http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/os/i386/headers/header.info
>   Executing failover method
> failover: out of servers to try
> Error getting file
> http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3/os/i386/headers/header.info
> [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error >

Do you have the mirrors enabled and the plugins for "closest mirror"?
I've been regulary checking for updates and when I get various
occasional failures, it just rolls to the next mirror and all works OK.

> 
> Sincerely,
> Melinda Odom
> <snip sig stuff>

HTH
-- 
Bill
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