-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks -- I recently upgraded from RH9 to FC1 using yum, and noticed some odd behaviour during the upgrade. Every time a Gnome2 rpm was installed, scrollkeeper-update would run. This would run some rebuild of Docbook documentation, which seemingly did not have all the required files present; this caused it to load files (via HTTP) from www.oasis-open.org. I caught it accessing this URL in particular: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/dbpoolx.mod Unfortunately, the website often does not respond, or would respond with a partial copy of the file, producing SGML parser errors. A quick websearch finds several other people in the same situation. I'm inclined to surmise that the number of Gnome2 installs being performed over the last couple of weeks has DDoS'd www.oasis-open.org, resulting in these hung requests and partial files. I worked around it by doing: mv /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update{,.SLOW} ln -s /bin/true /usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update killall scrollkeeper-update So FYI -- if you're upgrading while online, and see Gnome2-related packages taking an extremely long time to install, that may help. Suggested fix for Fedora: don't run scrollkeeper-update from every Gnome2 package's postinstall stanza; fix scrollkeeper to not make remote HTTP requests introducing a remote single point of failure. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQE/soyjQTcbUG5Y7woRAitYAJsEaNxzuHCX/NHXqw10HodJYxngaQCgnEyH Gu7ldWGrVGyxYce057CmzBI= =Ze5p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
