yum going to sleep in the background?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> Paul wrote:
>> I have a weird thing happening with yum since yesterday, or possibly
>> since the last update, which iirc included yum-updatesd.
>>
>> When I do a "yum update", after I confirm that I want the updates to be
>> installed, yum goes to sleep in the background and does not perform the
>> updates.
<snip>
>> I've never had this happen before, on any server, ever.
>>
>> What's going on here? How do I get it to just do the update and be done
>> with?
>>
> I tried to update just the kernel (yum update kernel*), and after
> sitting for a long time it puked up this:
>
> Error Downloading Packages:
>   kernel-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.x86_64: failed to retrieve
> getPackage/kenel-2.6.18-164.2.2.el5.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5
> error was [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error >
<snip>
Dunno if this was solved yet, but I noticed two things, and had a quirky
idea: I see you're Canadian... could you have had the French CentOS mirror
as your primary, and the hardware crash happened in the middle of your
transfer?

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