Description of problem: Sometimes when I use updating software (be it yum, pup, yum-updatesd or yumex), it keeps downloading data but fails to reach the stage where it informs you what updates are available. In yum and yumex, the error message that keeps appears is "metadata file does not match checksum", and then tries to download update dtat from another mirror (and then another, and then another, and another,and so on), so presumably this is also the same cause of yum-updatesd and pup not working properly. In yum, yumex and pup, this doesn't matter too much, because once it's obvious the application isn't working, you can quit it, stop the downloading of useless data, and try again later. However, I've noticed at least one occasion where my router has been endlessly downloading data before the yum-updatesd applet appears, which makes me suspect that yum-updatesd is liable to download metadata from every single mirror if the checksums don't match. And since it isn't obvious to the average user what yum-updatesd is doing, you could potentially end up downloading a lot of bandwidth without realising it. Which is a problem if you're on pay-as-you-go or download limits. My suggestion is that yum-updatesd should try a maximum of, say, three mirrors without prompting, and then either give up or ask the user if he/she wants yum-updatesd to keep trying. I've put this as "medium" as we probably don't want linux newbies discovering their download sizes going out of control. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All releases in f7, as far as I can tell. How reproducible: Sporadically. (Whenever checksums don't match.) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into fedora as normal. Actual results: Most of the time: updates alert appears as normal. If you're unlucky: updates alert fails to appear whilst your router appears to download metadata from one mirror after another. Expected results: Updates alert should appear all of the time. Additional info: I'm afraid I don't know how to examine the yum output in yum-updatesd. It would help if I could.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 400841 ***