When I selected "Software" and within that chose the menu item to check for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no more progress but ate 100% of the CPU.
It is kind of scary interrupting an update, but after about half an hour of no progress, I decided that there was no other way.
Do this in a superuser shell instead. It works and gives better feedback: yum update
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922697
PS. I consider software: check for updates less convenient than the pre-F18 "sofware updates".
On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 15:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
When I selected "Software" and within that chose the menu item to check for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no more progress but ate 100% of the CPU.
It is kind of scary interrupting an update, but after about half an hour of no progress, I decided that there was no other way.
Do this in a superuser shell instead. It works and gives better feedback: yum update
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922697
PS. I consider software: check for updates less convenient than the pre-F18 "sofware updates".
I commented on this previously. The Software program in Gnome does not do an yum update for me. It behaves just as you report in F18.
Does it work for anyone?
On 03/31/2013 01:18 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
I commented on this previously. The Software program in Gnome does not do an yum update for me. It behaves just as you report in F18.
Does it work for anyone?
I turned off the Software Updater long ago, because it would report that there were updates, then claim it was off-line when it came to installing them. Now, I simply run yumex every morning because It Just Works.
On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 15:18 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 15:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
When I selected "Software" and within that chose the menu item to check for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no more progress but ate 100% of the CPU.
It is kind of scary interrupting an update, but after about half an hour of no progress, I decided that there was no other way.
Do this in a superuser shell instead. It works and gives better feedback: yum update
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922697
PS. I consider software: check for updates less convenient than the pre-F18 "sofware updates".
I commented on this previously. The Software program in Gnome does not do an yum update for me. It behaves just as you report in F18.
Does it work for anyone?
It usually works for me, but seems to hang sometimes. I think it's when there is the pop-up dialog for additional packages or deleted packages. When it happens, the progress bar disappears and the updater appears to hang.
Killing it and running yum by hand has always worked in that case.
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