Registered with RHN for updates...

[kevin.kempter at dataintellect.com]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 16:18, Mark Knights wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Have just built a Fedora Core 4 machine for some uni work and hooked up
> my modem.  I am looking to run up2date and registered with the RHN.  Got
> the reply email and went to the requested page and confirmed my membership.
>
> However, when I run up2 date the system goes to collect the packages and
> then just seems to hang.  Is anyone aware of anything else I should be
> doing?
>
> I am running the system on a 1GHz Athlon, 256 ram, 56k dialup connection
> that appears to be running fine.  If you want anything else such as my
> config files etc, please let me know.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark

I have the same behavior from time to time when I try and use the RHN up2date 
tool. Mostly I try to not use it at all. Instead try opening a command window 
(konsole or some such), su - to root and run 'yum update' or 'yum -y update'