[Yum] yum hangs during download

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Nov 26 07:06:01 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 18:58 -0600, mw at csi.hu wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:35:24PM -0600, mw-list-yum at csi.hu wrote:
> > OK, so this may be an ftp problem.  Indeed, clients like ncftp and
> > elinks also have problems downloading the named packages.  For
> > example, try downloading
> > 
> > ftp://thales.csi.hu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-12.FC3.1.i386.rpm
> > 
> > All clients I tried will stop downloading exactly at 76% or 3.86MB.
> 
> The only client I have found working is---plain old ftp. But it does
> not work with fonts-xorg-base.
> 
> I seem to be having the problem only from home---behind a DSL connection.

Try setting keepalive=0 in your yum.conf under [main] and see if it
improves.

also you may be victim of a transparent proxy on your home dsl service.

-sv





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