Someone just said *not* to use protect and priority together.
Red Hat has a propensity to remove any documentation on a package that does not have a man page. Sometimes it's included in /usr/share/doc and sometimes in /usr/lib and sometimes it's just not there. There is, hopefully *some* documentation on plugins other than how to write one. I would like to know *what* plugins actually *do*.
At this point I don't think it even matters. You need to just get back to the simplest configuration possible. That means:
* Remove ALL plugins * Disable ALL third party repo's. * Do a yum clean all * Revert to the default CentOS .repo files * Revert to default yum.conf file
If it works in this configuration, you can start adding things back one at a time.
Maybe you've already tried this, I don't know. It's been a long thread. :)
Ray