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I just installed centos 7, yum is acting strange, experiencing RPC time-outs. Sometimes when I disable the additional repos (epel and rpmforge) it seems to make things act normal. But not this time (see below). Could I have some misconfiguration? Network glitch? What hypotheses should I be considering? Thanks, Dave [root at localhost ~]# yum repolist repo id

Apparently CentOS-7 - Base is failing, what does that mean? How do I contact the upstream for the repo? How do I find a working upstream? More info from command execution: do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out http://mirror.supremebytes.com/centos/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/repodata/3cda64d1c161dd0fead8398a62ef9c691e78ee02fe56d04566f850c94929f61f-filelists.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.supremebytes.com/centos/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/repodata/3cda64d1c161dd0fead8398a62ef9c691e78ee02fe56d04566f850c94929f61f-filelists.sqlite.bz2...

...te: > Apparently CentOS-7 - Base is failing, what does that mean? How do I > contact the upstream for the repo? How do I find a working upstream? > > More info from command execution: > do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out > do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out > http://mirror.supremebytes.com/centos/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/repodata/3cda64d1c161dd0fead8398a62ef9c691e78ee02fe56d04566f850c94929f61f-filelists.sqlite.bz2: > [Errno 12] Timeout on > http://mirror.supremebytes.com/centos/7.0.1406/os/x86_64/repodata/3cda64d1c161dd0fead8398a62ef9c691e78ee02fe56d04566f850c94929f61f-filelists....

I've had a request to downgrade R on one server, to match three others (someone who's just left had important scripts, and I assume they break going a full subrelease...). The server they want downgraded is running 4.1.0-5; the others are running 3.0.1-1. ALL are CentOS 6.5, yet yum downgrade tells me "only upgrade available", and yum list R-core-3.0.2\* gives me "no