If I have installed a third party yum configuration file, which has a URL for the gpgkey setting, then gpg key retrieval will fail, because it seems yum is going direct to the remote site rather than using the proxy settings in its configuration file, and direct access doesn't work at my site. As a result the packages will fail to install.
Can you please post your yum version and any tracebacks you get on command line. That would help to fix the problem easily and early.
There is no traceback. It just takes ages at the retrieving gpg key stage and ends warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 36e812a2 GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> and I can see from netstat that it is trying to retrieve the URL directly rather than obeying the proxy= configuration in yum.conf. This is with yum-3.2.16-2.fc9.noarch, also yum-3.2.8-2.fc8
I'm moving this off the blocker list, given that it's been true since at least 3.2.8 (pre Fedora 9 GA). We might still fix it for Fedora 10, it just doesn't seem like it should block anything.
This is fixed in upstream commit: 14ccb3cd86c89f5ae96f74f78210287e14943b68
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this is fixed in 3.2.21, or the soon-ish comming pre-release of same.