ken wrote: > On 10/27/2009 03:58 AM ken wrote: >> On 10/26/2009 05:44 AM ken wrote: >>> Just upgraded CentOS to (uname) "Linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus #1 SMP >>> Fri Oct 9 12:34:43 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux" and since then, <snip> >> One other point of weirdness: when I did "rpm -e emacs" (twice), it hung >> (didn't do anything and didn't give me back the bash prompt until I >> killed it (-9). The same thing happens when I use "yum remove emacs". >> >> Why should it be impossible to remove a package? > > Hmm. Now I find that *any* rpm or yum command I type in will hang. This > is not good. I've got lights ringing and bells flashing. First question: if you have more than one xterm up, can you do other things while yum or rpm are hanging? If so... I'd run chkrootkit. mark