On Wednesday, 01 September 2004, at 09:16:51 (-0700), Michael Stenner wrote: > I would suspect network rather than than rpmdb. I don't thing rpm > uses any sub-processes that it could conceivably be connecting TO, > though? Seth? Are you using ftp or http? There's only one repository listed in the chroot's yum.conf. It is http://127.0.0.1/..., so it shouldn't have any network problems at all. And it only seems to happen when yum is called to install a package that doesn't exist, like so: chroot /path/to/jail /usr/bin/yum -ty install autoconf expect (There is no "expect" package in the repository.) > If multiple people are having the same problem, I'd love to find out > more. However, I'll need to be able to recreate it locally. I'd be happy to do any tracing I can to help. I looked for a python option to trace a script, but I was unable to find one. If I were to provide an account on the system having the issue, would that suffice? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Love?! What does *love* have to do with *marriage*?!" -- Peter Jurasik (Ambassador Londo Mollari), "Babylon Five"