can I have you run:

yum clean expire-cache

and see if the errors persist?

Pat

On 04/15/2015 05:51 AM, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 15/04/15 11:34, John Pilkington wrote:
>> I'm seeing this in yumex. I've reinstalled yum-conf-sl7x
>>
>> failure: repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2 from sl-security: [Errno 256] No
>> more mirrors to try.
>> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: 
>>
>> [Errno 14] curl#36 - "Offset (7638280) was beyond file size (782492)"
>> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: 
>>
>> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 416 - Requested Range Not Satisfiable
>> http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: 
>>
>> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 416 - Requested Range Not Satisfiable
>> http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2: 
>>
>> [Errno 14] HTTP Error 416 - Requested Range Not Satisfiable
>>
>> You can try starting 'yumex -n' from a command line
>> and deselecting the repositories causing problems
>> and try again.
>>
> After a reboot it looks as if it just can't find updates/security
>
> 11:48:30 : WARNING - WARNING: Failure getting 
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/7x/x86_64/updates/security/repodata/primary.sqlite.bz2:
> 11:48:30 : WARNING - WARNING: Trying other mirror. ...etc

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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux developer

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
www.fnal.gov
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