Yum hangs on local mirror

[Hugh Caley]

In this case I'm running yum on the local machine.  It only seems to 
lock up when downloading sizable rpms.

Hugh

>
>   Re: Yum hangs on local mirror
>
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>
>     * /From/: Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>
>     * /To/: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list redhat com>
>     * /Subject/: Re: Yum hangs on local mirror
>     * /Date/: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:09:06 +0100
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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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.


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