Well, I used yum to upgrade from FC2 to FC3 and everything went flawlessly. I've booted into FC3, it was all going very smoothly. Then I started to remove some gnome packages that I don't use (I run XFCE) and suddenly yum hangs on every command. For example: # yum remove kernel-2.6.9-1.3_FC2 Repository updates-released already added, not adding again Repository base already added, not adding again Setting up Remove Process That's where it hangs. Here's another example: # yum list updates Repository updates-released already added, not adding again Repository base already added, not adding again Setting up Repo: base repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Setting up Repo: updates-released repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files base : ################################################## 2622/2622 updates-re: ################################################## 222/222 Any suggestions on how to track down the problem? Thanks in advance. Scott