Hello All, As you can see below I am having a problem checking for updates. This happens repeatedly. I have to kill the process then rerun. I have tried "yum clean all" but no joy - the process hangs again on "extras" - see second listing below. Suggestions? Dave [root at cserver ~]# yum check-update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * epel: fedora.mirror.facebook.net * base: ftp.telus.net * updates: ftp.telus.net * addons: ftp.telus.net * extras: ftp.telus.net epel | 2.1 kB 00:00 virtualmin | 951 B 00:00 pgdg83 | 1.9 kB 00:00 virtualmin-universal | 951 B 00:00 base | 1.1 kB 00:00 updates | 951 B 00:00 addons | 951 B 00:00 extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 --------------- hangup here ------------------------- ---------------- listing 2 ------------------- [root at cserver ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors [root at cserver ~]# yum check-update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Determining fastest mirrors * epel: fedora.mirror.facebook.net * base: ftp.telus.net * updates: ftp.telus.net * addons: ftp.telus.net * extras: ftp.telus.net epel | 2.1 kB 00:00 primary.sqlite.bz2 | 2.6 MB 00:16 virtualmin | 951 B 00:00 primary.xml.gz | 70 kB 00:00 virtualmin 254/254 pgdg83 | 1.9 kB 00:00 primary.sqlite.bz2 | 120 kB 00:01 virtualmin-universal | 951 B 00:00 primary.xml.gz | 11 kB 00:00 base | 1.1 kB 00:00 primary.xml.gz | 878 kB 00:04 base 2508/2508 updates | 951 B 00:00 primary.xml.gz | 318 kB 00:01 updates 479/479 addons | 951 B 00:00 primary.xml.gz | 157 B 00:00 extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 primary.xml.gz | 107 kB 00:00 extras 324/324 -- When addiction becomes commonplace in a society, people become addicted not only to alcohol and drugs, but to a thousand other destructive pursuits: money, power, dysfunctional relationships, or video games. A social perspective on addiction does not deny individual differences in vulnerability to addiction, but it removes them from the foreground of attention, because social determinants are more powerful.