yum >always< hangs...

[Christopher J. Bottaro]

thanks for the reply.

sudo yum -d 8 install qt-designer
[...snip...]
Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/livna-testing
Getting header.info from server
failover: baseURL = http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/2/i386/yum/
failover: path = headers/header.info

then it just sits there forever.  weird thing is, it seems to work fine (and
fast) if i'm a normal user and am just using "yum search".

thanks again.

p.s. same thing if i use su - instead of sudo.

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am So, den 25.07.2004 schrieb Christopher J. Bottaro um 17:24:
> 
>> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base
>> Server: Dag APT Repository
>> Server: Dries APT/YUM Repository
>> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable)
>> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Testing)
>> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Unstable)
>> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable)
>> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing)
>> 
>> then it just sit there.  sometimes it makes it a bit futher, but still
>> hangs.  in my yum.conf, i have retries set to 0 (i used to have it set to
>> 1) and am using the yum.conf from fedorafaq.org.
>> 
>> any ideas?  yum is a good idea, but its turning out to be completely
>> useless.
> 
> yum -d 8 update
> to see what's going on. Maybe change to different mirror server(s).
> 
> Alexander
> 
>