Theodore Omtzigt said: > Mmm: at this point no program that updates the system seems to work: > > rpm, up2date, and yum all start but then simply hang waiting for > something. They might be downloading headers. Have you tried stracing them? Another common issue is that the main server is generally overloaded. Have a look at: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror/ Also, do you have any proxy servers that need set up? > What is going on under the hood here? What is broken when rpm et. all > don't seem to be able to make any progress? I don't recall you mentioning anything about rpm being broken? -- William Hooper
