Kernel Upgrade Help needed!

[Alex Platte]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Chadley Wilson wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:24, William Hooper wrote:
> > Chadley Wilson said:
> > > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:45, William Hooper wrote:
> > >> Chadley Wilson said:
> > >>
> > >> > It is a corporate firewall and ftp access is denied
> > >>
> > >> By default up2date and yum use http, not ftp.
> > > I know that whats so scary!
> > >>
> > >> > but for some reason
> > >> > UP2date just hangs when I run it
> > >>
> > >> Hangs where?
> > >
> > > Just after the UP2date Channels window, you get packages flagged to be
> > > skipped, with a progress dialog box
> > > It says it is fetching [mirrorname/releases]
> > > underneath that is says [fedora-core-1/headers/headers.info]
> > >
> > > and stays there forever, once I left it for a day it never budged.
> > > Tried a few different mirrors from fedora.redhat.com with no change.
> >
> > First try running it in a console (up2date -nox) so you can copy and paste
> > the exact output.
> >
> up2date -nox
> gives the following error:
>
> usage: up2date [OPTIONS] [<packages>]
>
> /usr/sbin/up2date: error: no such option: -n


try up2date --nox -u



...alex