[PLUG] FC5 update question
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Thu Jul 20 02:20:10 UTC 2006
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Jim Karlock wrote:
> I installed FC5 last night and then clicked the update link. It is still
> downloading after around 12 hours (DSL line).
>
> What gives?
You probably hit a bad mirror. Kill the process and restart yum. (Use "ps
-auxw | grep yum" to find the process to kill. It spawns a child process
with a weird name.)
Yum does not have a way to tell if the mirror is not broken yet way too
slow.
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