On May 20, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a >> cron job. update yum and then update. > > a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was > broken > then. b) It is broken again :/ c) "yum update yum" and then "yum > update" > the rest broke things for some people when going from 5.2 to 5.3. Ralph, I wonder if yum-updatesd might cache repo data separate from yum cache, in which case some older incompatible cached data from the previous version may still be around causing yum-updatesd to bork. If so I think that cache will need to be manually deleted. I'll check my desktop system when I get to work to see if my theory is correct. -Ross