Issues with yum

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:56:12AM -0500, Genes MailLists wrote:
> On 02/27/2012 11:44 AM, Sandro Mani wrote:
> > 
> will leave your system in a state where manual cleanup is likely
> >> required.
> > One scenario which I often hit is forgetting to change the proxy
> > settings in yum.conf and then trying to update. Yum will clearly fail to
> > download repodata, but it will keep trying for all mirrors it knows.
> > Pressing ctrl+c there almost never works since yum only reacts to the
> > signal when it is sent exactely in the instant between when it gave up
> > downloading from one mirror due to timeout and beginning attempting to
> > download from the next.
> 
>  Control-Z
>  bg
>  kill -9 %1

That's what I frequently have to do.  It *is* a bug in yum (and a very
very long-standing one at that):

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=yum+ctrl+c
("About 137,000 results")

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=519233
(open since 2009-08-25, and that is a regression on an earlier
bug that was opened in 2004)

And yes, I know I haven't submitted the patch yet.

Rich.

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