yum locking up

[Rob Freeman]

Have you tried changing the yum.conf file to use mirrors instead of the
default settings?

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Salvatore Enrico Indiogine" <hindiogine at sbcglobal.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:43 AM
Subject: yum locking up


> Greetings!
>
> I am eager to migrate from RHL 9 to Fedora on my PC, but 1 problem is
> holding me back: yum
>
> Doing:
>
> yum check-update or yum update
>
> the download of the rpm starts and then locks up.  I can do ^C and it
> will continue or restart, but then it will lock up again.  The download
> stops.  The download usually works well with small rpms, but installing
> the kernel, glibc or mozilla is practically impossible.  It simply stops
> downloading and hangs.
>
> I am on DSL and it works well.  I have > 1 Gbyte space available.  I run
> the process as root.
>
> I really would like to solve this problem so that I can complete the
> migration.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Enrico
>
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