can't stop yum, must use kill -9

nodata fedora at nodata.co.uk
Tue Apr 19 08:42:55 UTC 2005


> On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:36 -0300, Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:
>> Fred New wrote:
>>
>> >Marius Andreiana wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >>I don't know if it's a new issue, but I first noticed this in fc4t2.
>> >>When yum is downloading packages, it can't be stopped pressing ctrl+c
>> >>(it will switch to another mirror and continue).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >I appreciate this behavior since some mirrors can be real dogs.
>> >If ctrl+c killed yum, how could I indicate to yum that I wanted
>> >to try a different mirror?
>> >
>> >
>> What about CTRL+C having the default behaviour (stopping the
>> application) and something else being used to tell yum to change mirror
>> (something like CTRL+M , for example)?
>>
>
> we've tracked it down - the problem with ctrl-c being grabbed is
> happening inside the python socketmodule - in the c code - so being able
> to change this from yum is not going to happen.
> -sv
>

Is this not fixable then? should I report upstream?




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