On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 10:46 +0300, cornel panceac wrote: > yum is not exiting on (several lines of) ctrl-c (tried several times) > it just keeps trying to download the huge primary* file. > > f9 preview fully updated. > > $ rpm -q yum > yum-3.2.14-10.fc9.noarch I find that it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't, even when it gives the "type another Ctrl-C within 2 seconds" message. The workaround is to do a Ctrl-Z and kill the process. poc