I did an install of CentOS 2.1 this past weekend and ran into the
same thing. While strace'ing the yum process I noticed it was hanging
trying to talk to the same ip address each time. After it would timeout
it would download a few more until it hit trying to talk to that same ip
address again.
nslookup of server configured in yum.conf returned several ip's,
one of which was not responding. My fix was to set it specifically to one
of the ip addresses. Sorry I don't have the specifics of which server it
was that wasn't responding, but I don't have access to that box at the
moment.
Jamie
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Mike Kercher wrote:
> 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
>
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