On 06/02/2010 03:20 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Daniel B. Thurman writes: > >> One would think that yum can detect "hangs" and >> move on to the next mirror to pick up the slack, >> but this is not the case, or so I am led to believe... > > It's been my consistent experience that yum waits about 30 seconds or > so, before giving up and going to the next mirror. > Yes, that is true for a "behaving mirror", but in my case, and on F12, it hangs a very long time (I went away for 30 minutes... came back, and no go!) So... it was strange. Seems that the hang in that mirror in question had a firm grip on the connection and would not time out at all OR yum thinks somehow the connection is still live even though there is no activity whatsoever. I had to ^C the yum connection to break yum, blacklist the offending mirror and try again. This time it worked. Strange. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
