On Jan 23, 2008 11:33 PM, Steven Vishoot sir_funzone@yahoo.com wrote:
How long were you waiting before ctrl ^c it? are you sure you did not kill it too soon. this sounds to me to be very inpatient person trying to update kernel
I'm not exactly sure - somewhere between fifteen minutes and half an hour. I checked with top before the interrupt and yum/rpm was nowhere in sight on a 50 line terminal screen, and with ps to ensure that there was no time being used by that process (ps showed that it had used a total of 14 seconds of time and did not budge from there for at least five minutes.
I know (by now) not to be impatient with this sort of thing - kernels are tricky enough to work with when they work 100%..
The first time, I was surprised that it had taken so long and not finished - that's when I started to investigate.
I'm thinking it might be something I installed that might have interfered, but the last successful install I did was ecasound and vobcopy, both from reliable repos, and the last unsuccessful install was k9copy which didn't like my gnome desktop or my CentOS (it's a Fedora package), so I gave up on it.
Thanks.
mhr