While waiting for up2date to download the available headers, the gnome GUI blocks without providing any progress information. I thought the application had hung completely - only once I did a bit of research here in bugzilla did I find out about the /var/spool/up2date directory. Now I can see (though repeated du -sk . commands) that it IS in fact downloading information. To put things into perspective, I started the process approximately 5 minutes ago, it's still downloading, and I even have a reasonably fast connection (cable modem).
Ah, forgot to include versions: /var/spool/up2date! rpm -qa | grep up2date up2date-2.1.7-1 up2date-gnome-2.1.7-1
The next version of up2date will be much quicker about downloading headers, and will also have more agressive caching of headers, so hopefully this wont be a problem.
Assigned QA to jturner
*** Bug 27789 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18847 ***