up2date hanging

[chuck_sterling]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:59:46 -0500, Steve Pyatt wrote:

> I had this same issue. On top of about a dozen others just getting
> started. I ran it several times before it seemed to get everything
> correctly. The nice thing is once it is downloaded, it did not download
> again. You might try running just a few of the packages instead of all of
> them. It didn't seem to really matter though.
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gary Stainburn Sent:
> Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:54 AM To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: up2date hanging
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> having got the network working I decided to run up2date.
> 
> Having taken most of yesterday downloading (102 updates) I left it
> overnight.
> This afternoon when I returned to it, the download had finished and it
> needed me to click a button before proceeding (?).
> 
> I clicked about 4 hours ago and then sat watching the hourglass.  The
> hourglass is still spinning and it's time to go home again.
> 
> Two questions
> 
> 1) should it take this long? (Celeron 700 with 120MB (8MB stolen by
> graphics
> card)
> 
> 2) if I kill it and start again, will it a) do better next time, and b)
> need to re-download everything.
> 

You should edit your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file to use a mirror,
rather than the redhat server set as a default. You can get a list of
mirrors on the fedora.redhat.com site. Also, run up2date-config and
remove "kernel*" from the ignored packages, and set the program to retain
the binary packages after installation (in case you need them again
later). You might find that up2date works a little better overall with the
mirrors, even if you don't make the configuration changes. Finally, I
usually run it as "up2date --nox -u -v" from a terminal, which eliminates
all interactivity and the gui, so it will complete unattended.

Good luck,
Chuck