update hang-up

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Mi, den 15.09.2004 schrieb Rhodes Davis um 20:23:
>
> > Hi, I have been working on updating my system for 4 hours.  I have
> > downloaded, gone to the command line, etc... each time when the update
> > starts in Red Hat it hangs up with a message "fetching rpm headers".
> >
> > I hope someone can help me?
> > Rhodes
>
> Use a different mirror server. This is a FAQ, please search the list
> archive. Maybe in addition read
>
> http://www.fedoranews.org/contributors/alexander_dalloz/mirror
>
> If it is not a mirror thing be sure you have enough free space for your
> system.
>
> Alexander

Also, up2date will often hang for long periods of time while trying to
resolve broken dependencies such as the one in today's gtk2 update:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126777

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		Matthew Saltzman

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