On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Patrick McSwiggen wrote: > > On Sep 15, 2004, at 5:14 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Yes, you are right. But both up2date in GUI mode as well with --nox did > > not hang in a form where I would have said it is stalled. It took a bit > > longer than normally to resolve dependencies and then it came up with a > > pop-up / message that dependencies failed. > > > > I ran into the problem of it stalling more than once in the last month > and the problem is that one of the mirrors is/was offline. I don't > remember which one, but it was whichever was closest to me. Is there > one at Purdue? I'm new to Fedora/RH and at least with FC2 up2date is mirrors.eas.muohio.edu. If that's where it hangs, just kill it and retry. Next time around, you'll probably get a different mirror. > setup out-of-the box to (randomly?) select a mirror from a rather short > list. If it happens to pick the mirror that's out it does not come back > and say the server is unavailable--it just hangs and never comes back. > It took me a long time to figure out that by quitting and restarting > up2date I could get it to pick again and hopefully try another server. > Since the redirection to the mirror appears to be happening at > redhat.com (so it's all "under the hood", as it were), it wasn't easy > to even figure out where the selection of the mirror was coming from. > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
