Fedora first update hangs on "Fetching rpm header: glibc-2.3.2-101.4"
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Fedora first update hangs on "Fetching rpm header: glibc-2.3.2-101.4"
Hello. I just activated my Internet connection that I get a message saying I have 75 updates available! So they tell me to connect to the Red Hat Network, I download "the new key" and so on, I click Ok (I let everything by default) there are two channels for the update, ok so I launch up2date but after a while, it hangs on "Fetching rpm header: glibc-2.3.2-101.4".
Can anyone help me!? It would be appreciated! Thx,
Max
It's most likely because you're using the "stock" Redhat Network settings and are trying to download the updates from Redhat, which can be slow as hell! It will take forever to update your system using the Redhat server. There's some articles at fedoranews.org that will show you how to speedup up2date by editing the server list to use mirrors.
I use "yum" to update my installation of Fedora. There's instructions fedoranews.org to speed it up to.
I had the same problem. iIt was downloading slow, but i disconnected and re downloaded, and the speeds were fine. but the hang does happen. ill try giving that link a try.
OK I found that webpage telling me how to setup a mirror. I found my mirror, i wanna use yum or whatever but when they say I have to change the yum.conf file, its in readonly mode. I even logon as root, did a chmod ug+rw but no changes.. still in readonly mode. How can I access this file to change the baseurl in order to put my mirror? Thx alot,
Max
Ok I try with the mirrors list there but none of them seems to work (I tried like 10 of them). I first type #yup check_update
then I can get:
retrygrab() failed for..
failover: out of servers to try..
550 headers: no such file / directory
..
is it the right way to use yum?
Thx,
Max
Once I have the headers, what do I do? I'm not going to install them one by one right? Do I type #yum update ? Or something else?
Thx,
Max
Btw, thx for your yum config, it works fine!
Ok thanks for the info.
I am trying to do the update this morning but it does not work: i get a 404 not found error when I do #yum update. Same error if I do again #yum check-update. I suppose the servers (all of them!??) are down? I have the same yum.conf as THX75.
I found some info there but it does not help more.
Thx for the help again,
Max
Ok.. now I just forgot about the yum.. and I used redhat network instead.. did some updates (along with the new yum version yah..) but thats it, the yum update has a "not valid key" so ok, skip that update. But when I did install these updates, it did try to install the yum update. So I got an error and everything start hanging. I press power off since I cannot do anything, then now when I reboot under linux I have no more GUI, even after pressing Y for the "disk check" I suppose. So ok I can connect, but under a "terminal" form, no more GUI, no more browser for Internet! AH!! How can I get these things back!! :-)
Thx alot,
Max
AND oh, just before I log in (i have to type enter first) i get this message: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
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