[CentOS] yum update -> [Errno 4] Socket Error: timed out

Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> ken wrote:
>> Good thought.  But that machine can reach port 80 on the mirrors...
>> nothing blocking it.
>>
>> So it would appear that the problem is with yum itself... as installed
>> on the problem machine.  But it's been working fine for years and
>> there's been no changes to yum.conf.
>>
>> I've upped the debug level (to 4).  I'll run that awhile and see what I
>> get.
>>
> Is it possible you have DNS errors on that machine?

Or could permissions on a directory have accidentally been changed, and it
can't create the socket?

Nooo, I just looked at errno.h, and that says corrupt shared library.

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