Will McDonald wrote: > I don't know if there's any easy way to avoid this, but you can > mitigate the problem by batching your yum updates into smaller chunks > which will, if the futext problem halts the update, leave you with a > less hosed system. :) I don't understand what you mean when you say "batch yum updates into smaller chunks". I usually just do a "yum update", eyeball the packages that it thinks I need, then hit ENTER to agree to the update. What does this "batching" involve? Cheers,