[PLUG] FC5 update question

[alan]

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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