Smart is hiccupping

[Basil Chupin]

Christoph Thiel wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 
>> I am pretty sure that this did not happen before the latest upgrade of 
>> smart but now smart locksup when it tries to update a channel which is 
>> not available- it used to just time out and go on with the rest of the 
>> updates but not now.
>>
>> The software.opensuse.org site appears to be down and when smart goes 
>> there smart just locks up and doesn't go on to the next channel on its 
>> list.
> 
> We are in the process of upgrading that maschine -- it should be back to 
> normal in a couple of hours.

Thanks, Christoph, but the main hassle here is that smart will not give 
up on a channel if it is unavailable and go on to the next channel. I 
had to go in as root and kill smart because it hung on like a bulldog to 
the unavailable channel :-) .

Cheers.


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