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? > > 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 have this problem often and no I don't use slow repos and I don't use ftp-repos (all http). Yum just sits there and the connection is dead (you can even cut the network), the only solution is to kill the Yum-process and I agree is not rpmdb related (the rpmdb is okay) it's a network problem. Bye, J?rgen