on freshly booted machine with a bad internet connection, yum-updatesd hangs (unbeknownst to clueless users like me). when running yum from the commandline, user sees "another copy of yum is running", making true nature of problem hard to diagnose. would rather see a quicker timeout on yum-updatesd, so that yum, when run from the command line, reports "cannot contact repository... " or some such more meaningful diagnostic. [root@rose ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora Core release 5.92 (FC6 Test3) [root@rose ~]# rpm -qa | grep yum yum-2.9.6-1 yum-metadata-parser-1.0-7.1.fc6 yum-updatesd-2.9.6-1
Are things better if you update to yum-2.9.8-1?
Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6 are, as we're sure you've noticed, no longer test releases. We're cleaning up the bug database and making sure important bug reports filed against these test releases don't get lost. It would be helpful if you could test this issue with a released version of Fedora or with the latest development / test release. Thanks for your help and for your patience. [This is a bulk message for all open FC5/FC6 test release bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]
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