RE: [newbie] Urpmi Strange Behavour

2004-02-12 Thread Tony S. Sykes
When I see this normally it is due to the site's being slow/down. Can you view it in a 
browser?

Tony.

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Subject: [newbie] Urpmi Strange Behavour


When I try to do a urpmi .update -a
it hangs like this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]# urpmi.update -a
computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis)
examining MD5SUM file
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.main.cz]
computing md5sum of existing source hdlist (or synthesis)
examining MD5SUM file
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz]
for a Lng time
any ideasThanks
 smitty 
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Re: [newbie] Urpmi Strange Behavour

2004-02-12 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 12 February 2004 06:19, Aron Smith wrote:
 examining synthesis file
 [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.contrib.cz] for a Lng time

It sounds as though you have the same contrib mirror as I did.  Try 
removing it and selecting another mirror.

Anne
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