Scott Silva wrote: > Is this the problem ^^^^^ > /var/cache/yum/updates/packages exists and has same owner/perms as all > the other dirs in the cache folder, although the double backslash looks > suspicious to me. you have something quite broken on the machine, check for non centos s/w installed, and rpm -V check the installed pkgs, specially yum and python and all the bits they need. how about drive space / permissions etc ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq