> 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 rpms ALWAYS get tested. Part of the downloading process is a consistency and signature check on the packages. If the consistency check hadn't succeeded then you would have redownloaded the packages > All of which is background for questions: > > 1. how long will yum wait for a stalled download to complete? it will retry the download up to 6 times (by default) time it waits is dependent on tcp timeouts and what not. > 2. what's the proper user reaction to this situation? you did pretty much the right thing, kill it. -sv
