The download eventually finished for me. It was slow, but it did finish.
The install worked without a hitch, everything rebooted and now the system reports it is on Stream. All the VirtualBox guests came back up, too.
Thanks!
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Bill Gee
On Monday, February 14, 2022 9:20:14 AM CST Greg Bailey wrote:
> On 2/14/22 08:08, Bill Gee wrote:
> > Ah, additional details. Thanks! The download is started. Running REALLY slow (like 24kb per second!) but it is running. I am not in a big hurry.
> >
> >
>
> I'm also trying to upgrade my CentOS Stream 8 system, and am getting
> super slow download speeds when the initial metadata is being
> retrieved... approx. 30kB/s.
>
> I know on older CentOS systems, you could Ctrl-C and yum would move onto
> a different (hopefully faster) mirror, but now Ctrl-C just stops dnf
> altogether, and if I reissue the "dnf upgrade" command, it again slows
> down to a crawl.
>
> Is there some setting for a minimum bandwidth threshold or some other
> way to diagnose some really slow mirror?
>
> thanks,
> Greg
>
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