Fedora 18 software: check for update hangs

2013-03-31 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
When I selected Software and within that chose the menu item to check for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no more progress but ate 100% of the CPU. It is kind of scary interrupting an update, but after about half an hour of no progress, I decided that there was

Re: Fedora 18 software: check for update hangs

2013-03-31 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 15:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: When I selected Software and within that chose the menu item to check for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no more progress but ate 100% of the CPU. It is kind of scary interrupting an update, but

Re: Fedora 18 software: check for update hangs

2013-03-31 Thread Joe Zeff
On 03/31/2013 01:18 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: I commented on this previously. The Software program in Gnome does not do an yum update for me. It behaves just as you report in F18. Does it work for anyone? I turned off the Software Updater long ago, because it would report that there were

Re: Fedora 18 software: check for update hangs

2013-03-31 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 15:18 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: On Sun, 2013-03-31 at 15:09 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: When I selected Software and within that chose the menu item to check for updates, the process worked for a while and then apparently made no more progress but ate 100% of