> 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
>
Ditto....
Seems to have just started when I did an update this
last weekend. Took about 1/2 hour just to download
header info, previous to last weekend never had this problem.
