ken wrote: > On 06/30/2011 11:21 AM John Doe wrote: >> From: ken <gebser at mousecar.com> >> >>> 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. >> >> When you say "stop downloading", what do you mean? >> Clean stop? Network error message? Filesystem? >> Maybe you could try to wget to /dev/null and see if it goes further? >> Or try to strace a wget to see what happens... > > Sorry, I should have been clearer. What happens is that the download > simply hangs. Doing ftp I turn on the 'hash' option so the ftp server > prints a # for every 1k (or something?). It'll print a half a screen > full of #s then stop; and I won't get the "ftp>" prompt back, even > should I wait a half hour for it. > > Using wget it's pretty much the same idea. On the left of the display > it'll show something like this: <snip> > and just freeze there... except the right two numbers (following "eta") > will continue to climb higher... it stays at "5%" and "1,029,216" > doesn't change, and there's no activity between those two numbers. In > short, the download just stops or freezes. Consider attaching strace, and see what it's waiting for? mark