On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Kevin Anderson wrote: > I've had this exact same problem, and I uninstalled yum reinstalled it > and it work for a day and then back to the same. I've also had it > working temporarily by doing a yum clean-all then yum makecache. But > next day it went back to doing the same old hang up. I'm not sure if > this is a yum problem or a centos problem. > ok this is definitely not a hardware problem that I have. This is definitley some kind of bug. My environment is 1*SATA drive 2*AMD opteron x86_64 CentOS 4.1 installed from DVD after running yum update the box becomes completely useless, I have seen kernel messages reporting EXT3 problems. after running yum update I see on the console. ATA3 BUG: timout without command. I have 25 identical boxes that I would like to install CentOS on, but I cannot update without the boxes becoming useless. CentOS-3 worked perfectly fine.