FC8 yum-updatesd-helper hangs

[Jim Cornette]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jim Cornette wrote:
>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> Jim Cornette wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is a bug filed for this problem that was already posted 
>>>> earlier in another thread. I believe the daemon program was designed 
>>>> to download without warning.
>>>
>>> It merely checks for metadata by default so that Pup can notify the 
>>> user of new updates if any. Does not download any packages though it 
>>> could be configured to auto download or install packages in the 
>>> background.
>>>
>>> Rahul
>>>
>>
>> I cannot even find a trace of the thread where the bug report led me 
>> to misinterpret what the updatesd-helper does. If all it does by 
>> default is download metadata, why would it hang now in Fedora 8?
> 
> There is a bugzilla report with more details but I suspect
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-infrastructure-list/2007-November/msg00112.html 
> 
> 
> Rahul
> 

Thanks Rahul, comment 9 is what led me to believe the updates were 
downloaded and installed which was holding up accessibility to run pup 
or pirut.

Reading further into the thread I see that the problems are fixed which 
caused the problem. I never searched for
"comps-f8.xml corrupt and so yum-updatesd continually re-downloads it"
At least I was not hallucinating as assumed because of not being able to 
find the report. I looked for pirut, pup and yum-update daemon bugs.

Jim

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