O > > 1. I didn't know of any distros that were shipping an ia32e kernel. > > Curious > > RHEL 3 has separate x86_64 and ia32e kernels... > RHEL 3 ships with x86(ia32) kernels, and x86_64 kernels. not an ia32e kernel. This would lead me to question why you have x86_64 packages on an x86 box, unless you're referring to EMT64 xeons as ia32e I suspect yum is doing the right thing and the error is operator related.