m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> 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 > Anything is possible, but I am configured for us-en, we don't have much call for French on the west coast, as far from Quebec as you can get and still say you are in Canada. On my RHEL5.3 boxes, I have had to disable Location-Aware update access, due to the way our Layer 2 VLANs are configured. -- Paul -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
