I just added the dag repository to my yum.conf and not yum hangs. On another server where i added the dag repositories it runs fine. yum -d 6 install snort Yum Version: 2.1.12 COMMAND: yum -d 6 install snort Installroot: / Ext Commands: snort Setting up Install Process Setting up Repo: dag Baseurl(s) for repo: ['http://apt.sw.be/fedora/3/en/i386/dag'] repomd.xml 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:07 Reading repository metadata in from local files Setting up Package Sacks ** hangs ** df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 109G 18G 86G 17% / /dev/sda1 99M 19M 76M 20% /boot none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm less /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 retries=20 obsoletes=1 exclude=kernel* #[base] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Base #baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/ #[updates-released] #name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - Released Updates #baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/ # PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo # in /etc/yum.repos.d [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Fedora Core baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/fedora/$releasever/en/$basearch/dag If you guys need more information ask .. thanks,