On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:56:12AM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 02/27/2012 11:44 AM, Sandro Mani wrote: > > > will leave your system in a state where manual cleanup is likely > >> required. > > One scenario which I often hit is forgetting to change the proxy > > settings in yum.conf and then trying to update. Yum will clearly fail to > > download repodata, but it will keep trying for all mirrors it knows. > > Pressing ctrl+c there almost never works since yum only reacts to the > > signal when it is sent exactely in the instant between when it gave up > > downloading from one mirror due to timeout and beginning attempting to > > download from the next. > > Control-Z > bg > kill -9 %1 That's what I frequently have to do. It *is* a bug in yum (and a very very long-standing one at that): https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=yum+ctrl+c ("About 137,000 results") https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519233 (open since 2009-08-25, and that is a regression on an earlier bug that was opened in 2004) And yes, I know I haven't submitted the patch yet. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
