On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 10:54 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > * Remove ALL plugins > * Disable ALL third party repo's. > * Do a yum clean all > * Revert to the default CentOS .repo files > * Revert to default yum.conf file > > If it works in this configuration, you can start adding things back one > at a time. I reached the same conclusion Saturday myself. I yum remove yum and reinstalled yum & pirut from my installation CD. The yum refused to update the kernel. I gave up on yum and downloaded the current kernel rpm. I rpm -i kernel* and received the following error message from rpm: package kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 is intended for a i686 architecture There is my problem! uname -ipm results in i686 i686 i386. It looks like yum is looking at uname -i. > Maybe you've already tried this, I don't know. It's been a long > thread. :) I agree. Waaay to long. Now what do the experts have to say about this? All packages *except* the kernel files are i386. I want to end this, please? -- Bob Taylor