Fedora 18 "software": "check for update" hangs

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

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".

[Aaron Konstam]

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?
-- 
Aaron Konstam telephone: [phone] e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

[Joe Zeff]

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.

[Matthew Saltzman]

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.
-- 
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu