Yum constantly downloads - Fedora 8
I ve been using Fedora 8 for quite a while but it was mainly for my academic work. Recently, I found my broad band account usage unusually high(in GBs).
I suspect it is due to yum. Because when I run Yum, it keeps downloading the same file again and again. I had turned on auto updates and so I strongly suspect yum. I am afraid if my computer is hacked risking personal data. I am posting the error messages thrown at terminal when I run yum Code:
[root@localhost arunkumar]# yum list Thanks a lot. |
I am also posting Yum configuration file. Additional info: I used www.fedorafaq.org for configuring yum.
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the fedora 8 repos were MOVED to the archives a while ago
There has been NO support for fedora 8 for about a year . if you stay with fedora 8 you might as well UNINSTALL yum. it is 99% useless on fedora 9,8,7,6,5 and so on. the reason it hangs it yum IS LOOKING IN THE WRONG PLACE ( where the software WAS before it was mover to the ARCHIVES) . install a supported version of fedora like Fedora 11 |
Yum can't be downloading anything, there's nothing at that particular location to download anymore, if you want to continue using F8 make sure you change your YUM configuration to point to the archived repos. Remember you're not going to get any new software updates or new programs to use so you'll have to make do with what is provided and if you're that concerned about security the only thing I suggest is that you upgrade to a newer release such as Fedora 10 or 11.
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Just curious, do you know if there is an upgrade tool to go from F8 to F9 (and F9 to F10) like there is to go from F10 to F11?
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Yes it's possible but you've now got to find the Fedora 9 archived repos because that is unsupported to. You could try your luck and download the Fedora 10/11 DVD or netinstall and try jumping from 8 to 10 or 11.
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Bah! Time for a rebuild.
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Well by all means give jumping from 8 to 11 a try, although I doubt it you may actually end up with a fully working system.
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That's what I'd be worried about... I'm gangbusters for CentOS that boxen now anyway. Rebuild!
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CentOS is brilliant, I suppose a huge advantage in your case may be that you wouldn't need up upgrade releases every 18 months or so.
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LOL.. If I'd have been doing that, I would be in my current predicament. Looking forward to getting CentOS on this box though. I'm running it on several other servers at home and linodes and it's very solid.
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What is your evidence it was yum that downloaded 13Gb?
Can you post some logs or something that we can take a look at? |
After I switch on the system, my router(modem) blinks constantly which indicates traffic usage. And also I checked traffic usage in my ISP's website. It showed 39 MB whenthe system was on for 1 hour.
This is how I say Yum was responsible for the download: I switched on the system. As soon as I logged in, the led that indicates download blinks rapidly. The speed indicates the rate at which download is done. Now, I opened up a terminal and typed "yum list" as root; I got the following. Code:
[root@localhost arunkumar]# yum list The downloads stopped. And If I run yum now, say "yum install gcc", it just keeps downloading a file, which I suppose is repo metadata.. The output at terminal is as follows. Code:
[root@localhost arunkumar]# kill -9 3137 I don't know if this will be of any use. this is my yum log - /var/log/yum.log Code:
Apr 10 21:18:45 Installed: yum-priorities - 1.1.8-1.fc8.noarch |
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