12 thoughts on - Yum Timeout … (CentOS 6.8)

• Walter H. wrote:
  
  Have you tried yum clean all before reruning?

  mark

• Yes, but doesn’t help … the same before …

  by the way, I can’t image that there is no mirror in Europa, and that the “timeout”-mirrors from US are the fastest;

  I’m from Europe / Austria;

  Walter

• yum -disableplugin

• yes this goes fast, no timeout;
  can I configure this in /etc/yum.conf?

  Thanks, Walter

• You can just remove the plugin: yum remove yum-fastestmirror

• not really

  [root@host /]# yum remove yum-fastestmirror Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Setting up Remove Process Resolving Dependencies
  –> Running transaction check
  —> Package yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch 0:1.1.30-37.el6 will be erased
  –> Processing Dependency: yum-plugin-fastestmirror for package:
  yum-3.2.29-73.el6.CentOS.noarch
  –> Running transaction check
  —> Package yum.noarch 0:3.2.29-73.el6.CentOS will be erased
  –> Processing Dependency: yum >= 3.2.18 for package:
  yum-plugin-security-1.1.30-37.el6.noarch
  –> Processing Dependency: yum >= 3.2.29-56 for package:
  yum-utils-1.1.30-37.el6.noarch
  –> Running transaction check
  —> Package yum-plugin-security.noarch 0:1.1.30-37.el6 will be erased
  —> Package yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.30-37.el6 will be erased
  –> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Trying to remove “yum”, which is protected

  Walter

• The correct way to disable a yum plugin is to set enabled to zero in the plugin config file:

  /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf

• ok I did this, and then did some yum install – works without timeout where could I tell yum to use existing mirrors in my near instead of one on the other side of the world?

  in this config I saw remarked the following:

  #include_only=.nl,.de,.uk,.ie

  when I set enabled=1 and removed the #-comment on this line
  ‘yum list kernel’
  shows this:

  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Determining fastest mirrors epel/metalink
  | 8.6 kB 00:00
  * base: http://ftp.usf.edu Including mirror: archive.linux.duke.edu Including mirror: mirror.unl.edu
  * epel: archive.linux.duke.edu
  * extras: http://ftp.usf.edu
  * updates: http://ftp.usf.edu

  I’m from Europe(!)

  Thanks, Walter

• I note that duke.edu matches uk, and unl.edu matches nl.

  Maybe they are regular expressions, i just tried with

  #include_ony=\.nl,\.de

  and got less surprising results

• …

  That’s annoying. I’ve filed a bug for that upstream:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1347426

• I tried this:

  include_only=\.at,\.ch,\.de,\.nl,\.uk

  and got this:

  Determining fastest mirrors
  * base: mirrors.usinternet.com Including mirror: mirror.chpc.utah.edu
  * epel: mirror.chpc.utah.edu
  * extras: mirrors.usinternet.com
  * updates: mirrors.usinternet.com

  when using this:

  include_only=\.at$,\.ch$,\.de$,\.nl$,\.uk$

  I got this:

  Determining fastest mirrors
  * base: mirrors.usinternet.com
  * epel: mirror.math.princeton.edu
  * extras: mirrors.usinternet.com
  * updates: mirrors.usinternet.com

  when using these two lines

  exclude=.edu,.com include_only=\.at$,\.ch$,\.de$,\.nl$,\.uk$

  I got this:

  Determining fastest mirrors
  * base: mirrors.liquidweb.com
  * epel: linux.mirrors.es.net
  * extras: mirrors.liquidweb.com
  * updates: mirrors.liquidweb.com

  quite strange …

  Thanks, Walter

• I found out some crazy things

  my setup is private IPv4 behind a NAT-Router (192.168.1.0/24)
  and as my ISP is still IPv4only I have a IPv6 tunnel (Hurricane Electric)
  the other end of the tunnel is not in US, it is in Germany(!)

  any access with port 80 or 443 is blocked except from proxy;
  and I did the following on squid:

  tcp_outgoing_address 192.168.1.10 linux-hosts

  and now

  after ‘yum clean all’, I get this when ‘yum list kernel’

  [root@host /]# yum list kernel Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors
  * base: mirror.inode.at
  * extras: mirror.inode.at
  * updates: mirror.inode.at
  … and this is what I except …

  and the following settings in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf

  exclude=.edu,.com,.org include_only=\.at$,\.ch$,\.de$,\.nl$,\.uk$

  are placebo, they don’t work; because without the “hack setting” in squid, which in fact disables IPv6 for the linux-hosts(!)
  these two settings result in

  Determining fastest mirrors
  * base: mirror.keystealth.org
  * epel: mirror.math.princeton.edu
  * extras: mirror.keystealth.org
  * updates: mirror.keystealth.org

  Greetings, Walter