On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:59:46 -0500, Steve Pyatt wrote:
I had this same issue. On top of about a dozen others just getting
started. I ran it several times before it seemed to get everything
correctly. The nice thing is once it is downloaded, it did not download
again. You might try running just a few of the packages instead of all of
them. It didn't seem to really matter though.
Steve
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From: fedora-list-bounces(a)redhat.com
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Gary Stainburn Sent:
Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:54 AM To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: up2date hanging
Hi folks,
having got the network working I decided to run up2date.
Having taken most of yesterday downloading (102 updates) I left it
overnight.
This afternoon when I returned to it, the download had finished and it
needed me to click a button before proceeding (?).
I clicked about 4 hours ago and then sat watching the hourglass. The
hourglass is still spinning and it's time to go home again.
Two questions
1) should it take this long? (Celeron 700 with 120MB (8MB stolen by
graphics
card)
2) if I kill it and start again, will it a) do better next time, and b)
need to re-download everything.
You should edit your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file to use a mirror,
rather than the redhat server set as a default. You can get a list of
mirrors on the
fedora.redhat.com site. Also, run up2date-config and
remove "kernel*" from the ignored packages, and set the program to retain
the binary packages after installation (in case you need them again
later). You might find that up2date works a little better overall with the
mirrors, even if you don't make the configuration changes. Finally, I
usually run it as "up2date --nox -u -v" from a terminal, which eliminates
all interactivity and the gui, so it will complete unattended.
Good luck,
Chuck