thanks for the reply. sudo yum -d 8 install qt-designer [...snip...] Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) CacheDir: /var/cache/yum/livna-testing Getting header.info from server failover: baseURL = http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/2/i386/yum/ failover: path = headers/header.info then it just sits there forever. weird thing is, it seems to work fine (and fast) if i'm a normal user and am just using "yum search". thanks again. p.s. same thing if i use su - instead of sudo. Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 25.07.2004 schrieb Christopher J. Bottaro um 17:24: > >> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) >> Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base >> Server: Dag APT Repository >> Server: Dries APT/YUM Repository >> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable) >> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Testing) >> Server: Fedora.us Extras (Unstable) >> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (stable) >> Server: Livna.org - Fedora Compatible Packages (testing) >> >> then it just sit there. sometimes it makes it a bit futher, but still >> hangs. in my yum.conf, i have retries set to 0 (i used to have it set to >> 1) and am using the yum.conf from fedorafaq.org. >> >> any ideas? yum is a good idea, but its turning out to be completely >> useless. > > yum -d 8 update > to see what's going on. Maybe change to different mirror server(s). > > Alexander > >
