> >This is really a pretty harsh criticism without much indication of >what your exact hardware/software specs are and what your problem is. > > Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to totally complain about YUM. I just haven't had an easy time of it, and the original poster was looking for reasons why maybe some people didn't like yum. >Can you please post RAM/CPU, specific version of operating system, and >the result of "yum list updates" if it does complete? > > 512MB Ram, Pentium3, 500Mhz. [root at localhost ~]# yum list updates Setting up Repos addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 kbs-CentOS-Misc 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 1572/1572 kbs-CentOS: ################################################## 61/61 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 49 kB 00:00 MD Read : ################################################## 124/124 update : ################################################## 124/124 dag : ################################################## 2458/2458 base : ################################################## 1406/1406 primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 98 kB 00:01 MD Read : ################################################## 326/326 freshrpms : ################################################## 326/326 extras : ################################################## 32/32 Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished >"antiquated" really needs to be old for it to not work with yum. > That's good to know. I don't think my computer is "antiquated", although it is getting long in the tooth. It would be nice to clear this detail up. Two more details: Yum usually works fine for the first little while after I start the computer. When it freezes, it usually occurs after the computer has been on for a while, or if I've run YUM a couple of time, say, searching for a particular package. I also keep getting this annoying error message: /sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libk3bdevice.so.2.0.0.#prelink#.X8kEMh is empty, not checked. I tried turning "prelinking" off by editing a file... though I can't remember off hand which file that was right now. It was weeks ago, and it didn't help anyway. The error still happens now and again. Dave