On 05/09/12 08:00, Suvayu Ali responds:
Hi Yashar,
A request: please do not top post; it makes it difficult to follow the
conversation and messes up the archives. Also please take the time to
read through the mailing list guidelines, this is mentioned there.
Now to get on topic,
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 03:25:03PM +0430, Yashar Pezeshki wrote:
CTRL+C doesn't work for me neither! But you don't need to know the process id
of yum, "kill `pidof yum`" will automatically replace the process id in front
of the kill command. And if anything went wrong with your yum database, you can
simply run "yum clean all" to clean your database, and any other time that you
try to update your packages, it will be rebuild.
You keep suggesting to kill yum but I think you are misunderstanding
what I meant by package database. The command "yum clean <sub command>"
only cleans cached data like, metadata, packages etc. There are two
databases involved here, the rpm database and yum's own database.
Killing yum with kill can corrupt these two. Although recovering the
rpm database (this is the more crucial one) is not impossible, but it is
somewhat of an inconvenience. However I do not know of any way to
recover yum's own database.
So please, think twice, thrice and many more times before you kill a
running yum process with kill. It should be the very last resort in
your toolbox, specially when repeated Ctrl+c is available.
And as in this case, when Ctrl+c is not behaving as it should. It could
just be a bug. The suggested course of action would then be to wait for
it to fail and die itself, turn of automatic update checking and report
a bug report.
Hope this helps.
Ok, after many CTRL+c's I finally got through to it! It's apparently
a matter of being patient? I was getting continuous screenfuls of
these "Trying other mirror" messages. Normally yum update is
uneventful and just works. This may be related to another problem I
am seeing.
Trying other mirror.
http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/2c3b0034cb0557f2da7d7fcb908e1c28d824d046bc23eeacfe3d3e4cf4a2b50b-prestodelta.xml.gz:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found :
http://mirror.its.sfu.ca/mirror/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/2c3b0034cb0557f2da7d7fcb908e1c28d824d046bc23eeacfe3d3e4cf4a2b50b-prestodelta.xml.gz
Trying other mirror.
^Chttp://less.cogeco.net/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/2c3b0034cb0557f2da7d7fcb908e1c28d824d046bc23eeacfe3d3e4cf4a2b50b-prestodelta.xml.gz:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found :
http://less.cogeco.net/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/2c3b0034cb0557f2da7d7fcb908e1c28d824d046bc23eeacfe3d3e4cf4a2b50b-prestodelta.xml.gz
Trying other mirror.
^C^Cftp://ftp.cogeco.net/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/2c3b0034cb0557f2da7d7fcb908e1c28d824d046bc23eeacfe3d3e4cf4a2b50b-prestodelta.xml.gz:
[Errno 12] Timeout on
ftp://ftp.cogeco.net/fedora/linux/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/2c3b0034cb0557f2da7d7fcb908e1c28d824d046bc23eeacfe3d3e4cf4a2b50b-prestodelta.xml.gz:
(28, '')
Trying other mirror.
^Chttp://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/2c3b0034cb0557f2da7d7fcb908e1c28d824d046bc23eeacfe3d3e4cf4a2b50b-prestodelta.xml.gz:
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found :
http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/fedora/updates/17/x86_64/repodata/2c3b0034cb0557f2da7d7fcb908e1c28d824d046bc23eeacfe3d3e4cf4a2b50b-prestodelta.xml.gz
Trying other mirror.
^C
Exiting on user cancel
A few days ago there was discussion about the Euro symbol. I tried
changing to the US International keyboard. That worked as advertised
but I have not been able to restore the simple US keyboard since. It
boots with the odd symbols, when I go to admin-settings it shows the
normal US keyboard set but I am getting accented "s," "U" umlaut,
have to press ALT-GR to get an apostrophe, all very inconvenient
until I tell it once more to select the US keyboard, then it works.
Related to yum update problem? I dunno, but it's a suspicious
coincidence.
Bob
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