On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 11:37 -0400, JohnS wrote: > The exact problem is yum can't get a lock on the meta data in an nfs > root. I have browsed the yum list and seen the same problems and no fix > for it yet or even if it could be fixed. You'd be best off asking on the yum or yum-devel lists and not on centos-devel. thanks, -sv