how to stop yum update -

[Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA]

On 05/09/12 05:36, Suvayu Ali responds:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 04:08:47AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>     I've run into this problem before. My ISP appears to have some early
>>     morning problem and when I start yum update it simply keeps trying
>>     to find another update. I can live with that and just try again
>>     later but there is no graceful way to tell yum to stop!
>>
> Please do not kill it as advised in the other response to the thread.
> You could corrupt your package database.
>
> You can simply hit Ctrl+c; yum/python is smart enough to under stand the
> user is trying to cancel.  If it is downloading somehting, it will say
> to hit Ctrl+c again within 20s to confirm (or something along those
> lines), after the second Ctrl+c yum quits gracefully.
>

    I wasn't able to kill it anyway since top in an another terminal
    didn't show yum I had no PID.

    Several CTRL+c's did nothing I could see, nor did a stream of
    perhaps ten. It just keeps trying and seems to ignore my effort to
    stop.


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