Chadley Wilson said: > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:45, William Hooper wrote: >> Chadley Wilson said: >> >> > It is a corporate firewall and ftp access is denied >> >> By default up2date and yum use http, not ftp. > I know that whats so scary! >> >> > but for some reason >> > UP2date just hangs when I run it >> >> Hangs where? > > Just after the UP2date Channels window, you get packages flagged to be > skipped, with a progress dialog box > It says it is fetching [mirrorname/releases] > underneath that is says [fedora-core-1/headers/headers.info] > > and stays there forever, once I left it for a day it never budged. > Tried a few different mirrors from fedora.redhat.com with no change. First try running it in a console (up2date -nox) so you can copy and paste the exact output. Also, are you behind a proxy or is it just a firewall? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272 -- William Hooper