On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, billg wrote: > Much updating weirdness the last few hours: > > I reinstalled FC1 this afternoon. Once the install finished, I went > straight to up2date. Judging by the extremely slow transfer rates, the > servers were pegged. When the transfer of a given file would apparently > time out (as indicated by the up2date progress bar) several minutes would > pass and then up2date would display a notice that the package's gpg was > invalid. However, that was not the case, because the message did not > reappear when I subsequently managed to successfully download those > packages. > > Eventually updated everything I need successfully, but 'twas a pain. > > billg Had the same thing happen. Yep, their servers are pegged because everyone is trying to download a corrupt 40 meg kernel source file and a kernel update from Fedora, and a non-corrupted kernel update for RedHat 7-9. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: gilbert@xxxxxxx *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Work phone: 815-753-5492 * *******************************************************************************
