On Thursday 04 August 2005 16:18, Mark Knights wrote: > Hi all, > > Have just built a Fedora Core 4 machine for some uni work and hooked up > my modem. I am looking to run up2date and registered with the RHN. Got > the reply email and went to the requested page and confirmed my membership. > > However, when I run up2 date the system goes to collect the packages and > then just seems to hang. Is anyone aware of anything else I should be > doing? > > I am running the system on a 1GHz Athlon, 256 ram, 56k dialup connection > that appears to be running fine. If you want anything else such as my > config files etc, please let me know. > > Cheers > > Mark I have the same behavior from time to time when I try and use the RHN up2date tool. Mostly I try to not use it at all. Instead try opening a command window (konsole or some such), su - to root and run 'yum update' or 'yum -y update'
