Yum hangs on local mirror

[Paul Howarth]

Hugh Caley wrote:
> We have set up local yum mirrors for Fedora, and updates are fast as 
> heck, except that Yum seems to hang intermittantly.  Sometimes it stops 
> right in the middle of copying over an rpm; then it just sits on the 
> process bar and never seems to recover.  We don't seem to see this 
> problem when using mirrors from the Internet, although these are much 
> slower, of course.
> 
> Could this be a problem with trying to push too much data through the 
> local apache server?  It doesn't show any errors.

Are you running yum in a terminal window over ssh? I'm seeing a similar 
issue when running yum on my home machine from work using ssh, though it 
usually hangs when processing the metadata rather than with the RPMs 
themselves.

Paul.