Kernel Upgrade Help needed!

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 11 13:24:52 UTC 2004


Chadley Wilson said:
> On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 04:45, William Hooper wrote:
>> Chadley Wilson said:
>>
>> > It is a corporate firewall and ftp access is denied
>>
>> By default up2date and yum use http, not ftp.
> I know that whats so scary!
>>
>> > but for some reason
>> > UP2date just hangs when I run it
>>
>> Hangs where?
>
> Just after the UP2date Channels window, you get packages flagged to be
> skipped, with a progress dialog box
> It says it is fetching [mirrorname/releases]
> underneath that is says [fedora-core-1/headers/headers.info]
>
> and stays there forever, once I left it for a day it never budged.
> Tried a few different mirrors from fedora.redhat.com with no change.

First try running it in a console (up2date -nox) so you can copy and paste
the exact output.

Also, are you behind a proxy or is it just a firewall?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102272

-- 
William Hooper





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