On 06/29/2011 07:58 AM ken wrote: > Trying to update a second CentOS box, I'm getting this error repeatedly: > > [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out > > I'm getting this on every mirror and have gone through the list of > mirrors more than a dozen times. > > Oddly, the RPMs I'm trying to upgrade I upgraded just yesterday without > a problem on another machine on the same LAN with no problems > whatsoever. I can ping mirrors fine. > > There were a spate of these errors back in 2006. The fix for many was > to add this line to yum.conf: > > timeout=300 > > So I did that on the machine where yum is having the problem, but the > same errors are returned. > > Anyone else seeing this? Anyone know what the problem is? So I tried using wget to download RPMs from a few mirrors. I was able to successfully one whose size is about 5.5M, but the others all stop downloading around 1M. Then I tried ftp... same deal. This might be the reason for the "socket error" in yum. I don't have quotas set on this machine. selinux is on, but it's been on for years... why should it start interfering now? I'm downloading into /tmp where security settings are standard (user_u:object_r:tmp_t). Any ideas?