Up2date Misbehaves...Slowly

[Elton Woo]

billg wrote:

>I did a fresh FC1 install today on a machine that has previously run
>Fedora quite happily and glitch free.  
>

>8.   Happily spinning hourglass appears...and spins for 45 minutes or so.
> Progress bar does not progress across the graphic.  Hard drive is not
>busy.
>9.  I kill up2date and relaunch it.  Up2date proceeds to start
>downloading everything again.
>10. Sigh....
>
>Now, I run up2date from the commandline, and sometime before I relaunched
>it, it produced this error message:
>  
>

>at's happening?  Where are all the downloaded packages?  Can they be
>installed manually? 
>
>Thanks,
>
>Billg
>
Your last name isn't "Gates", by any chance, is it? LOL! (... and 
ducking swiftly).
Seriously, though, I wonder if this has anything to do with it:
"download.fedora.us disk failure", posted by Warren Togami on the 2nd 
instant:
<http://www.fedora.us/pipermail/fedora-devel/2003-December/002369.html>
To date, I haven't seen any update to this item at:
http://www.fedora.us/

... just a possiblity...

Elton.

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