On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 11:09, seth vidal wrote: > On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 10:09 -0600, Tony Hill wrote: > > Some of us have had the same problem with Yum freezing up - we've > > covered that in another thread on this list. > > > > Taking your suggestion last night, I ran Yum to get a list of the > > recent updates and when (as usual) it froze while downloading a large > > file (Open Office updates are always a killer), I did a CTRL-C and then > > I used my gFTP client to download the rest of the files. > > > so yum froze but going from the same ftp sites gftp did not? > > -sv > Seth : gftp freezes too - but it restarts the download automatically at the same spot it left off after a short delay. I don't have to restart from scratch each time. A (final) follow-up to this thread. After an unbelievable amount of work, I finally convinced my local Telco to put me on DSL. So I'm no longer connected to the internet via DirecPC one-way satellite service. That's the only difference - the gateway on my LAN goes somewhere new and there have been no changes at all to my Linux boxes. Yum now does huge updates flawlessly ! This is good. It also suggests some sort of Yum issue handling some sort of socket error / lost packet / timeout situation on flakey networks rather than a specific problem with my machines or setup ? Tony
