How long should the installation take?

[nacoku]

I am currently doing the installation on Fedora 12. Put the code and clicked on submit and it seems to be taking forever.

Does the pc have to be physically connected to one of the router's ports?

[cpg]

well, it has to be connected to the network to retrieve packages, etc.

it can take from 10 minutes to 20 or 30 minutes, typically. depends on your machine speed and your download speed!

[nacoku]

Well, it gets stuck on the first part of the installation. It is connected to my wireless network. It gets stuck on the first part: Installing yum-fastest-mirror. Does not get any further than that? It has been like that for two days. Any suggestions?

[cpg]

two days?

you are a patient man!

it does seem to get started - however, maybe something is preventing it from getting to the mirrors.

try installing it by hand like this:

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yum -y install yum-fastestmirror

to see if things pick up?

there is something preventing it from installing updates for a long time. maybe a stuck lock file or something??

hard to tell without much more info ...

[nacoku]

Indeed,there seems to be a lock. When I run that command from the terminal, this is what I get:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 6640.
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: yum
Memory : 46 M RSS ( 73 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Dec 17 19:20:43 2009 - 2 day(s) 16:04:45 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 6640
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: yum
Memory : 46 M RSS ( 73 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Dec 17 19:20:43 2009 - 2 day(s) 16:04:47 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 6640
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: yum
Memory : 46 M RSS ( 73 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Dec 17 19:20:43 2009 - 2 day(s) 16:04:49 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 6640
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: yum
Memory : 46 M RSS ( 73 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Dec 17 19:20:43 2009 - 2 day(s) 16:04:51 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 6640
Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit...
The other application is: yum
Memory : 46 M RSS ( 73 MB VSZ)
Started: Thu Dec 17 19:20:43 2009 - 2 day(s) 16:04:53 ago
State : Sleeping, pid: 6640

[nacoku]

How do I kill the installation that's not letting me do this. Would a simple restart do? I just tried installing wine also and is giving me the same error message.

[cpg]

this may do it (in quick succession):

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killall yum killall yum killall yum

a restart may also do it, unless the lock is stale (in which case you may have to locate it and remove it).