> Paul wrote: >> I have a weird thing happening with yum since yesterday, or possibly >> since the last update, which iirc included yum-updatesd. >> >> When I do a "yum update", after I confirm that I want the updates to be >> installed, yum goes to sleep in the background and does not perform the >> updates. <snip> >> I've never had this happen before, on any server, ever. >> >> What's going on here? How do I get it to just do the update and be done >> with? >> > I tried to update just the kernel (yum update kernel*), and after > sitting for a long time it puked up this: > > Error Downloading Packages: > kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64: failed to retrieve > getPackage/kenel-2.6.18-164.2.2.el5.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5 > error was [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error > <snip> Dunno if this was solved yet, but I noticed two things, and had a quirky idea: I see you're Canadian... could you have had the French CentOS mirror as your primary, and the hardware crash happened in the middle of your transfer? mark -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list