update hang-up

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Patrick McSwiggen wrote:

>
> On Sep 15, 2004, at 5:14 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> > Yes, you are right. But both up2date in GUI mode as well with --nox did
> > not hang in a form where I would have said it is stalled. It took a bit
> > longer than normally to resolve dependencies and then it came up with a
> > pop-up / message that dependencies failed.
> >
>
> I ran into the problem of it stalling more than once in the last month
> and the problem is that one of the mirrors is/was offline. I don't
> remember which one, but it was whichever was closest to me. Is there
> one at Purdue? I'm new to Fedora/RH and at least with FC2 up2date is

mirrors.eas.muohio.edu.  If that's where it hangs, just kill it and retry.
Next time around, you'll probably get a different mirror.

> setup out-of-the box to (randomly?) select a mirror from a rather short
> list. If it happens to pick the mirror that's out it does not come back
> and say the server is unavailable--it just hangs and never comes back.
> It took me a long time to figure out that by quitting and restarting
> up2date I could get it to pick again and hopefully try another server.
> Since the redirection to the mirror appears to be happening at
> redhat.com (so it's all "under the hood", as it were), it wasn't easy
> to even figure out where the selection of the mirror was coming from.
>
>

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		Matthew Saltzman

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