Fedora update taking a long time...

[ejohn]

i recently switched to fedora from ubuntu. naturally i was excited to see the add remove software option in fedora. i tried to install something but whenever i click on any submenu like multimedia the task bar just shows downloading list of packages. i have a working internet connection and its not slow either but i have waited for like one or two hours for something to show up. and nothing does.
i am already thinking of switching back to ubuntu.:-(...but i want this to work cos its a great distro otherwise. searching the forums i saw one more guy had the same problem and i tried everything that was mentioned on that thread and nothings worked yet.
can anyone please help.
thanks.

[bob]

I'm wondering if the problem is your mirror site. Perhaps you've got a very, very slow one that's being used by default. Try installing 'yum fastestmirror' and see if it makes a big difference.

[marko]

Plus there were some server problems I noticed just going on today,
the repo system seemed ok yesterday.

[ejohn]

yeah even i think its the slow mirror problem. its downloading a file called primary.sqlite.bz2 at of about 300B/s and my connections 2 mbps! anyway i got the fastestmirror rpm and installed it. though the files get downloaded much faster (in yum) it always ends in an error saying metafile does not match checksum and tries the next mirror. the add remove software window is still downloading the list of packages for a long time. no improvements on that front.

[ejohn]

after installing fastestmirror yum crashes with this error. some bug i suppose or is it just me who has a problem with it.


Trying other mirror.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 241, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 116, in main
result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 307, in doCommands
self._getTs()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 98, in _getTs
self._getTsInfo()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 104, in _getTsInfo
self._tsInfo.setDatabases(self.rpmdb, self.pkgSack)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 576, in <lambda>
pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 423, in _getSacks
self._pkgSack.excludeArchs(archlist)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 391, in excludeArchs
sack.excludeArchs(archlist)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 39, in newFunc
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 1021, in excludeArchs
cur = cache.cursor()
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'cursor'

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

This seems to be a bug. Make sure you file a report in http://bugzilla.redhat.com against the plugin