At Sat, 29 May 2010 01:53:47 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list <centos at 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. -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk