I've had two instances, with different yum versions, but both on the same FC1 machine, of the rpm download stopping for a very long time. Ok, downloads do fail. My internet connection is only live 99% of the time. So, I do manual updates. What I did the first time was hit ctrl-c, wait 15 seconds, hit ctrl-c again. At that point the download appeared to restart and complete. Then yum exited. Without thinking, I ran yum update again and the new rpms were installed. Everything worked fine. But, I realized that the new rpm files had not been tested by yum. The second time I tried to be smarter and deleted the "hung download" rpm before doing yum update again. I probably should have deleted all 5 rpms, because they still did not all get tested. All of which is background for questions: 1. how long will yum wait for a stalled download to complete? 2. what's the proper user reaction to this situation? thanks, Cliff Kent
