Can anyone shed any light on this little problem I have. I'm trying to do a "yum update" on FC2. Trouble is it keeps on hanging when trying to download the rpm for "libgnome-devel" at exactly the same point every single time (8%). I've tried updating /etc/yum.conf with various mirror servers at the start of the list, but it reacts exactly the same each time. I've also cleaned out the cache (both using "yum clean..." and just deleting the contents of the cache folder).

Nothing seems to change anything. I know it's not simply being slow... i left it overnight, and it was still stuck there in the morning.

Could this be something to do with my network adapter. I just reinstalled FC2 from the CD's, and it's still playing up. This time I just did a standard home/desktop installation. yum seems to fail early on in the 3rd download whatever it's doing.

I'm running behind a NAT router, but my other machine had absolutely no problems with running yum.

Try using apt for fedora. Can you update that way? Downloading the rpms manually could be a pain. Not sure what the problem could be.

I could try apt, but I'd just got used to the idea of yum... damn...

Seems to be a problem with particular rpms right now, regardless of the server I use.

libgnome-devel
gnome-applets
gstreamer

Most files seem to work okay though.

Been trying apt, but I can't find any "apt" repositories for the base fedora core 2 files and updates?

Can I use the same one's I'd use with yum?

go to freshrpms.net or fedorafaq.org They have config files for both.

Cheers for your help. Yum seems to be doing the job again now... I think perhaps something went wrong at the server end. I have a sneaky suspision that the mirror failover method is a little flawed and it's simply starting with the same server every time.

I simply commented out a bunch of mirrors in yum.conf and it seems to be happy again. Perhaps the UK mirrors were playing up because of the bad weather we're having?

It seems that this isn't a yum problem after all. I tried downloading the troublesome RPM's manually from mozilla, and they fail there too... on ALL the mirrors I've tried.

I had the same problem and in the end I used up2date as the latest version works fine as you dont have to register with redhat.