While updating my centOS workstation the other day, I find the update hanging at the line: Updating : udev ##################### [153/398] I followed the advice of waiting a long time. So I waited at least 2 hours (lunch helped). I know there are always problems interrupting updates. Finaly, I killed active processes like 10-hal.dev with all kind of parameters (sound, tty, block...) which I could summarize as a huge part of the /dev. There were 2 actives at a time and killing one allowed the next one. Then, yum update finaly continued updating and finished his job. The reboot went smoothly. Questions: 1. Am I the only one with this problem? 2. Could I get problems following my killings? I suspect that there were onyl timeouts, but I know nothing about udev. 3. Any idea of what could have been wrong? 4. Are there advices of a better update strategy? Since centos 4.0, this is my first update problem (4.3 to 4.4). Anne -- Anne Possoz, Domaine IT-GE Espace logiciel libre à l'Ecole Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne (Switzerland)