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

Thu Jun 30 16:27:04 UTC 2011
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

Reboot your firewall and os?
30.6.2011 19.11 <m.roth at 5-cent.us> kirjoitti:
> 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
>
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