Herschel wrote: | Claude Jones wrote: | || I'm doing a reinstall and am now going through the update || process. It found a huge number of upgrades and was moving || through them, but now, on 933/969 it's been stalled for half || an hour on 'completing update for gimp'. Is this normal? If || not, what happens if I abort? If I choose to abort, is there a || preferred way? || | I am unsure this will be of any help, but I just installed FC 3 | (probably a very early version off a Linux Format DVD - Jan | issue) on a laptop this weekend. All efforts failed using the | connection via the built in updater. Yum update (command line) | was suggested and it had only need for 369 updates and I mostly | left it alone while it churned away checking aperiodicly. Near | the end I found I found it failed on Natulus, I did a Ctl-C | expecting the worse and just tried to rerun: "yum update" only | to be told I was completely updated. | | Note the difference, however, I had an explicit message | informing me of a premature halt so our situations differ. | | It might be possible that an abort may leave you with most of | the updates completed, if it is still locked up you could try | this "method". Warning until yesterday I have only read about | yum having never used it previosly - I was impressed. Well, I ran out and ran errands while I waited to see if anyone had some cogent advice to offer. When I returned the machine was still stalled. Ctl-C didn't do anything, so I finally cold rebooted into level 3. When I tried a yum update again, it said there was a missing dependency 'boost' needed for 'boost-devel' and quit. I'd run yum with the fedorafaq yum.conf file that first time. I just ran it again in level 5 with the redhat network utility which uses different repos, and it installed 4 additional packages and said it was completely up to date. It's funny, this has happenned before - I try one set of repos, and there's a problem, and then I use the utility built into FC and it gets me past the logjam. There was a thread recently about removing up2date and I thought to myself that this kind of thing is a good reason to keep it. Now I have an example. Claude Jones Levit & James, Inc./WTVS Leesburg, VA, USA
