David Evennou wrote:

Hi Dave,

I am experiencing the same problem on two of my systems running CentOS 5. I get an error message after a long timeout, "could not retrieve mirrorlist". Please let me know if you find a way around this problem.

Thanks, David

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" dmehler26@woh.rr.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:24 PM Subject: [CentOS] yum freezing when removing old kernel

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Hello, Today i ran a yum update and installed kernel 2.6.18.53.1 from centosplus. I then rebooted to ensure i was running it. I was and went to remove the previous kernel and kernel-devel packages v2.6.18.53 also from centosplus. In both cases yum gets to the running transaction check then hangs, i don't get any errors it just sits there. I have to manually kill the yum process to resolve this. This does not happen with any other package add/removals. Any suggestions? Thanks. Dave.

try running yum with -d9, and see if the extra info gives you more info, something that might help diagnose the issue. For issues such as 'could not retrieve mirrorlist, I'd suspect a network issue .

Also, try not to top post, it makes it hard to make sense our of what you are saying and how it relates to the previous email.

David Evennou wrote:

Hi Karanbir,

Thanks for the tip. Are you using an email reader that you can set to bottom post automatically?

Thanks, David

----- Original Message ----- From: "Karanbir Singh" mail-lists@karan.org To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] yum freezing when removing old kernel

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David Evennou wrote:

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Hi Dave,

I am experiencing the same problem on two of my systems running CentOS 5. I get an error message after a long timeout, "could not retrieve mirrorlist". Please let me know if you find a way around this problem.

Thanks, David

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" dmehler26@woh.rr.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:24 PM Subject: [CentOS] yum freezing when removing old kernel

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Hello, Today i ran a yum update and installed kernel 2.6.18.53.1 from centosplus. I then rebooted to ensure i was running it. I was and went to remove the previous kernel and kernel-devel packages v2.6.18.53 also from centosplus. In both cases yum gets to the running transaction check then hangs, i don't get any errors it just sits there. I have to manually kill the yum process to resolve this. This does not happen with any other package add/removals. Any suggestions? Thanks. Dave.

try running yum with -d9, and see if the extra info gives you more info, something that might help diagnose the issue. For issues such as 'could not retrieve mirrorlist, I'd suspect a network issue .

Also, try not to top post, it makes it hard to make sense our of what you are saying and how it relates to the previous email.

I use thunderbird and sometimes mutt, both can bottom post and quote properly.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Silva" ssilva@sgvwater.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:59 PM Subject: [CentOS] Re: yum freezing when removing old kernel

on 12/9/2007 4:21 PM David Evennou spake the following:

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Hi Karanbir,

Thanks for the tip. Are you using an email reader that you can set to bottom post automatically?

Most keyboards have both a page-down key and a down-arrow key. Either one will work.

-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Scott,

I am trying to do this properly and follow the posting rules. Thanks for the wisecrack!

David

----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Silva" ssilva@sgvwater.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:02 PM Subject: [CentOS] Re: yum freezing when removing old kernel

on 12/10/2007 7:18 AM David Evennou spake the following:

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Silva" ssilva@sgvwater.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 8:59 PM Subject: [CentOS] Re: yum freezing when removing old kernel

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on 12/9/2007 4:21 PM David Evennou spake the following:

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Hi Karanbir,

Thanks for the tip. Are you using an email reader that you can set to bottom post automatically?

Most keyboards have both a page-down key and a down-arrow key. Either one will work.

-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Scott,

I am trying to do this properly and follow the posting rules. Thanks for the wisecrack!

David

You are the one that answered a "please don't top-post" with a top-post, so I figured it was fair game. Sorry 8-D

-- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Scott, No problem ..... I was looking for a reader that would work with just "reply" and also remove the text that is automatically inserted from previous posts. I noticed that some posts had the CentOS mailing list removed and did not know if that was manually deleted.

Thanks, David

David Evennou wrote:

No problem ..... I was looking for a reader that would work with just "reply" and also remove the text that is automatically inserted from previous posts. I noticed that some posts had the CentOS mailing list removed and did not know if that was manually deleted.

many mailers will automatically strip anything following a line with "-- " (dash dash space) as this is the old convention for a signature seperator.

I manually strip everything I can and cut the quoted part down to just what I'm replying to.

I recommend Mozilla Thunderbird as a modern full featured GUI email package, available for many platforms.

David Evennou wrote on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:37:20 -0500:

I noticed that some posts had the CentOS mailing list removed and did not know if that was manually deleted.

A good program will at least remove the signature from the quote. Mine allows me to select what I want to quote before I reply (see quote above). Apart from that manual trimming down is appreciated :-) I actually prefer people top-posting if they don't trim, but people on this list seem to prefer bottom-posting. It's not clear to me, though, why they like to scroll down for hours for a two-sentence reply.

Kai

William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:28:21 -0500:

Maybe they hope that non-relevant text is trimmed out so that "scroll down for hours" is a rare occurrence?

I hope that, too, but I don't see it happen too often. :-(

Kai