Fedora 18 - yum constantly timing out - culprit seems to be fastestmirror plugin

Did a yum update with Fedora 18 and got nothing but timeouts and 404 not found errors. 

 yum clean metdata
     and
yum clean all
     and
(a reboot)

 were all of no help.

 However
yum --disableplugin=fastestmirror update


 completely fixed the problem.

 Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.nexcess.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/repodata/8b5178f2b98050e518752afe8fbe527c4d7a53bde138a7f3ce276766ec71869e-comps.xml.gz: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.nexcess.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/repodata/8b5178f2b98050e518752afe8fbe527c4d7a53bde138a7f3ce276766ec71869e-comps.xml.gz: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.liberty.edu/pub/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/repodata/8b5178f2b98050e518752afe8fbe527c4d7a53bde138a7f3ce276766ec71869e-comps.xml.gz: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.liberty.edu/pub/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/repodata/8b5178f2b98050e518752afe8fbe527c4d7a53bde138a7f3ce276766ec71869e-comps.xml.gz: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
updates/group_gz                                         | 388 kB     00:00     
infinality/primary_db          FAILED                                          
http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/18/x86_64/repodata/b2b6591c3501dfd1fefe8ce0e51d98f33eb181ba267e26ff29a8ac5be004e398-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/18/x86_64/repodata/b2b6591c3501dfd1fefe8ce0e51d98f33eb181ba267e26ff29a8ac5be004e398-primary.sqlite.bz2: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
infinality-noarch/primary_db   FAILED                                          
http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/18/noarch/repodata/ac74b85f497c7da87f5f90f1dd0ae7e718261f4fc2ed80efbdd35b7cc1bba768-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://www.infinality.net/fedora/linux/18/noarch/repodata/ac74b85f497c7da87f5f90f1dd0ae7e718261f4fc2ed80efbdd35b7cc1bba768-primary.sqlite.bz2: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
rpmfusion-free/primary_db      FAILED                                          
http://mirror.web-ster.com/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/18/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e56db74a5ef49fe8fdf0e75efe628c3936ecc57bea480a2ac7d738000329f5c8-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.web-ster.com/rpmfusion/free/fedora/releases/18/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e56db74a5ef49fe8fdf0e75efe628c3936ecc57bea480a2ac7d738000329f5c8-primary.sqlite.bz2: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary FAILED                                          
http://mirror.web-ster.com/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/repodata/8f3095147507e45486b1197e4c6eebc854101cccd2bb74a6774ce48c48da8c47-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.web-ster.com/rpmfusion/free/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/repodata/8f3095147507e45486b1197e4c6eebc854101cccd2bb74a6774ce48c48da8c47-primary.sqlite.bz2: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
fedora-chromium-stable/primary FAILED                                          
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-18/x86_64/repodata/f3c4f5bc02f1b6cf67c39ce08ff6fdaf29e373fd803c1d451e2b6a549bf21192-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium-stable/fedora-18/x86_64/repodata/f3c4f5bc02f1b6cf67c39ce08ff6fdaf29e373fd803c1d451e2b6a549bf21192-primary.sqlite.bz2: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/prim FAILED                                          
http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/repodata/4c1651f07728e87dc51f0ef44f563e555191c868746fc85deda49b7572802875-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/updates/18/x86_64/repodata/4c1651f07728e87dc51f0ef44f563e555191c868746fc85deda49b7572802875-primary.sqlite.bz2: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
rpmfusion-nonfree/primary_db   FAILED                                          
http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/18/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/f59aba9eb9d1720579df22229ae4e6fd2e57de9d90ac08db3884830ae9b89fb3-primary.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/rpmfusion/nonfree/fedora/releases/18/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/f59aba9eb9d1720579df22229ae4e6fd2e57de9d90ac08db3884830ae9b89fb3-primary.sqlite.bz2: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.

Comments

Anonymous said…
In f19, if you choose to update, you will still update with fastet mirror plug in, so it would be better to use yum --disableplugin=fastestmirror without update on the end. Then to update after the plugin has been disabled.
December 9, 2013 at 4:38 PM
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