Re: Very SLOW system update

On 13 September 2015 at 07:55, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Just curious: what is the thinking behind setting fastestmirror=0 by > default? Is it to get around the overhead for calculating the fastest > mirror each time. > > Ranjan > Have a look at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051554

Re: What is broken with software update?

On 09/13/2015 07:07 AM, John Mellor wrote: Then (since I'm developing a deep distrust of software update), I did a CLI dnf update. There were 27 updates pending. Clearly, software update is broken. Nothing is clearly broken. yum/dnf repositories are not synchronized. No mechanism nor mandat

Re: dracut fails to build bootable initramfs on fc22

Hi, >> The reason I need to mount the USB stick is to save the sosreport file >> after an unsuccessful boot. Is there any difference in the way devices >> are managed in a rescue mode versus just booting a kernel? > > It should be possible, I do it regularly. This is just regular MBR/GPT > partiti

Re: What is broken with software update?

On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 10:07 -0400, John Mellor wrote: > I'm getting to the point where I never want to use the graphical > software update facility, since it is ALWAYS wrong. > > I just logged in, pulled up software update, and knowing that it > routinely messes up and says that there is nothing t

Re: What is broken with software update?

I'm not using yumes-dnf. I'm having the problems with the GUI Gnome software center application, whatever that is called. On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 10:33 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > what graphical interface are you using? I NORMALLY use CLI & dnf > update, > but sometimes if I want to look for a

Re: NTP synchronized: no

From your email on Sep 8th: > chronyc sources > 210 Number of sources = 4 > MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample > === > ^? host3.nuagelibre.org 0 8

Re: What is broken with software update?

what graphical interface are you using? I NORMALLY use CLI & dnf update, but sometimes if I want to look for a package I use the graphical interface: $ yumex-dnf I HATE using it. even if I have just done a $ dnf update, it takes FOREVER to refresh the Repository Metadata... FOREVER... after a goo

What is broken with software update?

I'm getting to the point where I never want to use the graphical software update facility, since it is ALWAYS wrong. I just logged in, pulled up software update, and knowing that it routinely messes up and says that there is nothing to update, I asked it to recheck for updates. It came back again

Re: Very SLOW system update

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 12:55:36AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Just curious: what is the thinking behind setting fastestmirror=0 by default? > Is it to get around the overhead for calculating the fastest mirror each time. Historicall, when it was available with yum, fastestmirror was the source

Re: Very SLOW system update

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > An update has been running on my system for the last 3-1/2 hours. It > hasn't crashed or died, but it's been very slo If it's the apper update transaction, you can run in a terminal: pkmon to observe the status of the PackageKit daemon, could give a clue what it is d

Re: NTP synchronized: no

Hello, Following the previous email exchange, what is the next step? Is the issue clearly identified? Do I need to run more tests? Thank. === Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdu...@gmx.com Laborato

Re: Very SLOW system update

On 09/13/15 11:16, Kam Leo wrote: > "dnf includes fastestmirror functionality in standard package (no plugin > needed). You just need to enable it in |/etc/dnf/dnf.conf| by setting > |fastestmirror=1|. It is disabled by default (man dnf.conf >