Ken Godee wrote: >> 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. > Thank god...I'm not crazy!!! :) Mike