[ale] tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.3.i386

[Michael Hirsch]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:10:38 -0500, Nathan J. Underwood
<ale1 at cybertechcafe.net> wrote:
> Well, this morning it was still holding steady at 18MB with 17 seconds
> left.  I downloaded it to one of our webservers (offsite), and then
> tried to download it from there.  It downloaded to the webserver in
> seconds, but when I tried to download it from there to here, same
> thing.  Got to 18MB and stopped.  I verified [again] that there was
> sufficient drive space, and scratched my head a bit.  Then, I tarred /
> gzipped it, which dropped it by roughly 1MB, and tried again.  This time
> it worked.   Downloaded it to my workstation, rpm -Uvh 'd it, and am now
> in business.  Anyone got any ideas about what could have been happening
> (and probably still is)?

I would guess one of two possibilities.

1) You have some kind of file size limit on your downloads.  Can you
download other 20 MB files?  (Try the java sdk for a file that is
big.)  This could be an ISP limit, firewall limit, or something else
on your own system.  I would guess this is it.

2) Some bizarre filter problem.  What if the compressed file had the
word "nude" in it at 18 MB and some filter was running that detected
that.  This seems unlikely, but possible.

Michael
> Chris Ricker wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Nathan J. Underwood wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I'm trying to update my Fedora Core3 machine using yum update, but it
> >>keeps hanging on tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.3.i386, specifically, it dies at
> >>around 18MB.  I've tried it from a couple of sources (including the
> >>stock yum sources, dag, and even downloading it with a browser from
> >>rpmfind), but have the same problem.  Anyone got any ideas?  I was able
> >>to download the OpenOffice update without a problem (100+MB), and I've
> >>still got several GB left on the drive.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This may or may not be your problem, but make sure you configure yum to use
> >relatively local mirrors. The full Fedora mirror list round-robins through
> >hundreds of sites of somewhat varied connectivity and reliability
> >
> >Changing to something like
> >
> >mirrorlist=http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors/fedora-core-$releasever.us.
> >east
> >
> >in /etc/yum.conf or /etc/yum.repos.d/* will probably help in general. The
> >above is what I use for machines in the Eastern US for which I've not set up
> >a private archive, and it works pretty well. tetex-fonts-2.0.2-21.3
> >downloads for me using those mirrors just fine....
> >
> >later,
> >chris
> >_______________________________________________
> >Ale mailing list
> >Ale at ale.org
> >http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>