On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 15:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > When I selected "Software" and within that chose the menu item to check > for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no > more progress but ate 100% of the CPU. > > It is kind of scary interrupting an update, but after about half an hour > of no progress, I decided that there was no other way. > > Do this in a superuser shell instead. It works and gives better feedback: > yum update > > > See <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922697> > > PS. I consider software: check for updates less convenient than the > pre-F18 "sofware updates". I commented on this previously. The Software program in Gnome does not do an yum update for me. It behaves just as you report in F18. Does it work for anyone? -- Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org