FC6 yum has broken

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 10:40 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Suddenly yum update no longer works on my FC6 machine. Somehow a
> > file /var/cache/yum/stablemirrors file is created. I can't find it on
> > other versions of Fedora.
> > 
> > Then the yum update process gets stuck on the primary.xml.gz
> > 
> > It starts being processed but then just quits part of the way through.
> > 
> > Can anyone explain this?
> It sounds like you have the fast mirror plugin, and the mirror it is
> trying to use is not responding. (Too many people trying to
> download, down for maintenance, etc...) You can disable the pluging,
>  or you can try moving the stablemirrors file to another location.
> (That way, you can move it back if it breaks something.)
> 
> Mikkel
Thanks. I think your diagnosis is correct.
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>