John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:31:53PM +0000, hadi motamedi wrote: >> Please find below : >> [root at mss-1 tmp]# rpm -q centos-release >> centos-release-5-2.el5.centos > > And you conveniently left out the kernel revision that would > be returned by the second part of the command I gave you, namely > "uname -a". > > It sounds very much like a broken server, either a crippled > OpenVZ or similar VPS or a server broken by someone that > didn't know what they were doing and went to some trouble > to remove the yum subsystem. Akemi pointed you to > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenVserver and it > is worth your time to read it and see if you can unbreak > that box. Wonder if someone was trying to remove yum-updatesd, and got all of yum. mark