On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com> wrote: > > rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.* > > I have tried rm -rf rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.* and rebuilt my rpm > package database but that didn't move the needle on this problem > That actually won't do anything for yum. Try: yum clean headers If that doesn't resolve, try: yum clean all Also, verify that your /var filesystem is writable and has a few gig of free space.