On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:25:25 -0500, Gene Smith <gds at chartertn.net> wrote: > I think this is related to the "kded4" crashing but not sure how. When I > try to use KPackageKit to find a package under "Software Management" it > now hangs with the message at bottom "waiting on other tesks". If I do a > yum install it also hangs after printing "Loaded plugins: presto, > refresh-packagekit" and can only exit it with kill -9. I think maybe if > kpkgkit waits long enough that kded4 finally crashes. So this may be > what others see too. But yum hanging was not reported I don't think and > I wasn't seeing it earlier. > > I have tried log off/on, restart X, power off/on and nothing helps. > Network connection still good. > > -gene Are you using rpmfusion? Currently mirrors.rpmfusion.org is unreachable. Tried yum installing with "--disablerepo=rpmfusion*"? Or could also try to enable the "baseurl" instead of the "mirrorlist" in your rpmfusion repo files that ought to work. :) -- Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards, Eelko Berkenpies