On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 14:08, Chadley Wilson wrote: > I have tried lots of mirrors and it just hangs. > Ok first it says its Redhat update agent is building a list of pakages > it the says fetching packages. > But it stops there and nothing hapens not even after an hour and a half. > What could the problem be. > I have treid mirrors in USA west, east south africa [my current > location] and [when you push the send key on your keyboard by mistake you have to finish the mail with half greyed] any way lots the bottom line is when I downloaded open office my connection was sitting solidly at 32kb/s but when I run up2date the connection is only giving 6k/s. I am using gkrellm to monitor. I have plenty cpu time and mem free and the eth0 just sits virtually dormant, almost as if nothing was happening mmm any ideas > > > On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 09:20, Michael Kearey wrote: > > Chadley Wilson wrote: > > > Hi Guys and Girls > > > > > > I am behind a firewall I have setup the proxy and the authentication > > > Up2date does connect but hangs on the process dialog box > > > looks likes this: > > > > > > Process Dialog > > > Fetching http;//fedora.redhat.com/releases > > > fedora-core-1/headers/header.info > > > > To use a mirror other than the very busy fedora.redhat.com one: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg01577.html > > > > > > Cheers, > > Michael > > >
