On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 10:40 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Suddenly yum update no longer works on my FC6 machine. Somehow a > > file /var/cache/yum/stablemirrors file is created. I can't find it on > > other versions of Fedora. > > > > Then the yum update process gets stuck on the primary.xml.gz > > > > It starts being processed but then just quits part of the way through. > > > > Can anyone explain this? > It sounds like you have the fast mirror plugin, and the mirror it is > trying to use is not responding. (Too many people trying to > download, down for maintenance, etc...) You can disable the pluging, > or you can try moving the stablemirrors file to another location. > (That way, you can move it back if it breaks something.) > > Mikkel Thanks. I think your diagnosis is correct. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
