Fedora 18 "software": "check for update" hangs

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 15:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> When I selected "Software" and within that chose the menu item to check 
> for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no 
> more progress but ate 100% of the CPU.
> 
> It is kind of scary interrupting an update, but after about half an hour 
> of no progress, I decided that there was no other way.
> 
> Do this in a superuser shell instead.  It works and gives better feedback:
> 	yum update
> 
> 
> See <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=922697>
> 
> PS. I consider software: check for updates less convenient than the 
> pre-F18 "sofware updates".
I commented on this previously. The Software program in Gnome does not
do an yum update for me.  It behaves just as you report in F18.

Does it work for anyone?
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