On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 16:04 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > Apologies, I was not able to receive email responses to my > email server, hence lost of thread... Something seems to > be wrong with my email server, if anyone spots a problem, > with my email server, please let me know what you see? > > I fired off a message to administrator of this mailing list > asking for a resolution as to why I am not receiving emails > from fedora-list. The odd thing is, that I forgot my password > to fedora-list and fired off password request and "immediately" > received it - via my email server - perhaps a different mechanism? > Hmm... > > In response to Craig White: > ==================== > You said that the `waiting for other tasks' eventually went > away, and I left mine on - and it never went away for a looong > time - so how long did you have to wait? Seems that for both > F9 & F10, the problem persists (and it's annoying), and it hangs > around for an hour before I gave up and rebooted. > > But what is particularly bad, is that I cannot make any more > selections nor move to another group category in "Add/Remove > Software" because that and any other requests are added to the > Yum-backend queue, whereas `Waiting for other tasks" is first > line line in the queue waiting to be completed, and it never finishes. > ---- you could get a cli and as root, kill off any yum process that is seemingly hung and then try a yum update from cli. I suspect that there's something on your system that is causing yum to hang. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
