seth vidal wrote:
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 16:42 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Jeu 31 août 2006 16:31, Rahul a écrit :
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>
>>> Outside of downloading files you should be able to cancel yum at any
>>> time in recent cvs pulls.
>> Users usually want to cancel it only during downloads because the
>> mirrors or down or they are on a slow connections and things like that.
> The other slow part is the rpm transaction, and most users are not mad
> enough to cancel it.
cancelling during the transaction is a bad, bad idea.
-sv
How about when yum seg faults and leaves the rpm db a "messed up" state
and you try yum again and it just hangs or loops?
Yes, killall -9 yum works.
I guess the real problem is the seg faults or whatever other reasons yum
needs to be kill.
Richard