up2date problem?

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Paul W. Frields wrote:

> Just upgraded to up2date-4.1.5-1 (about 30 sec ago)... progress dialog
> is frozen at the "Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies"
> stage. There are a large number of entries in the main dialog for
> Canna-3.6-22, I can't tell how many due to the modality of the progress
> dialog.

30 seconds is not nearly enough time for this process on my system.  It
takes at least 2-3 minutes, if updating a "virgin" system, and that's on a
system with a 600 MHz processor, which isn't THAT slow.  So I'd say give
it time.
 
> The /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file has commented out the default line
> for "up2date default", and instead only has a persistent directive for 
> "yum rawhide http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/".
> 
> Changing the directive back to the default and re-running up2date fixed
> the problem, apparently, since the update is now working correctly.

This may not be a bug, but intended behavior.

--Jeremy

-- 
/---------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Jeremy Portzer        jeremyp at pobox.com      trilug.org/~jeremy     |
| GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F  E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 |
\---------------------------------------------------------------------/