On 02/25/2010 05:57 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
On 02/25/2010 03:58 PM, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Yes. I tried it with and without. Problems are the same. Seems to me it is a yum problem, but I am speculating. I am running FF. sendmail, DNS, etc.. a LOT of services and I am not seeing any problems. Just with yum installs/updates.
OK, it seems that when I removed yum-fastestmirror, the problem went away. Perhaps fastestmirror is not playing nice! I noticed that it was hard-hitting the network and perhaps reaches a bandwidth limit and causes breakage?
Dunno.. I think I will stick with this for now.
You could try removing /var/cache/yum/timedhosts.txt and then enabling fastestmirror again. I did that when I was troubleshooting when I found the problem with Singapore. FWIW, Singapore had been working just fine. I think there may have been undersea cable problem at the time. I've not gone back to find if the problem still exists
I removed that file.
For something as simple as: # yum clean all # yum update (no new updates)
It had a hell of a time downloading the repo database files and then it went into a spin loop. Once I removed FM, it went through, but slower. With FM, it was much faster but at the expense of disconnects, or so it seems.
I noticed that when yum disconnects, it smacked my dovecot imap connections as indicated in my maillog file (I was also watching messages log file, but nothing noted there), maybe its a coincidence, but what do I know!
Really odd.
I will forego FM for now.