Matt Bottrell wrote:
> It's not a problem with name resolution or anything like that.
> I was watching a netstat -tc in another window and when yum
> froze, the connection to the mirror would show a SYN_SENT
> status. After I hit Ctl-C, the yum process doesn't
> terminate...it continues to download more headers/rpms.
I have a similar problem. yum is almost always stalling whether it's a
clean install (just did two clean installs of 3.4 on Friday) or an
existing box (have eight 3.3 boxes that have been running for about 2
months now).
However, if I hit ctrl-c, it just kills the process, it doesn't continue
it, so I was surprised to read your comments above.
I end up always doing one of two things (or a combination of them):
a) since I figured it was related to which mirror it might be hitting
(never investigated, just assumed), I always just ctrl-c to end the
process and then run yum again, thinking I might get a faster/closer
mirror -- repeat this until it seems to be going at a decent pace
b) alternatively, or after doing (a) a few times, I just walk away from
it, and eventually (sometimes half an hour or more), it *will* complete,
stalling all along the way at various points
johnn
