[Yum] yum hangs during download

[mw-list-yum at csi.hu]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:06:01AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 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.

This did not help.  This is a problem since now my automatic update
does not work, and I have to download the updateable packages by hand
using sftp or similar (regular ftp does not work).

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

I am not familiar with this problem.  What can I do about it?

Yhx,

Mate

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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis