Johnn Tan wrote:
> 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
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Mine will kill the process if it is somewhere between:
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: CentOS-3 - Addons
Server: CentOS-3 - Base
Server: CentOS-3 - Extras
Server: CentOS-3 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
After it starts downloading headers and/or package and stalls, Ctl-C will
allow the downloads to continue for a moment.
Mike
