[Yum] yum hangs during download

[mw-list-yum at csi.hu]

As I am upgrading my home system with yum from FC2 to FC3, yum hangs
repeatedly while downloading the packages.

As we speak it has been hanging with 

glibc-common-2.3.3-74.i38  69% |=================        | 9.5 MB    00:28 ETA

for more than an hour.  The attached strace output shows

21724 recv(13, "\230\372w\2jE\324e\23\336\6\262\304\1\232\353\232\203\255"..., 8192, 0) = 1400
21724 recv(13,

When I send an iterrupt to the yum process (#21724), then all
continues fine after an error message like

ftp://fedora.csi.hu/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/gtk2-2.4.13-9.i386.rpm: [Errno 4] Socket Error: (4, Interrupted system call)
Trying other mirror.

(this was the message when the download was hanging all night on gtk2).

Now, I am willing to leave my upgrade hang until somebody tells me how
to debug this without restarting the upgrade (though I could do that
too [remove the downloaded rpms?] if absolutely necessary).  I already
have some strace outputs from an attached strace if needed.

Thx,

Mate
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