up2date no longer works on my home or office wordstation

[Randy Kelsoe]

Clement Taylor wrote:

>Hello,
>up2date no longer works on my home or office fedora workstations. It
>seems to hangup (even overnight).It was working great. The "Progress
>Dialog" "Fetching rpm headers" slidebar completes and I get the session
>pasted below on my terminal session.
>
>On the mail gui screen I see this:
>yum channel fedora-core-1 from 
>http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1
>
Just get back from Mars? :)

This has been asked and re-asked and covered many times in the last few 
weeks. Alexander Dalloz was kind enough to create this short and 
informative howto:
   
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg03379.html