Always Learning wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 23:56 +0200, Sebastiano Pilla wrote: >> I'm trying to update my CentOS 5.6 boxes to 5.7, and on every single one >> of them yum is failing with a segmentation fault: the error happens when >> yum is checking the 'base' repository. > > Have you tried > > yum clean all > > > followed by > > yum update > > ? Yes, I've tried it, with the exact same result: [root at picard ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors [root at picard ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: downloadonly, fastestmirror, priorities Determining fastest mirrors * base: mirror.opendoc.net * extras: mirror.opendoc.net * updates: mirror.opendoc.net base | 1.1 kB 00:00 base/primary | 961 kB 00:00 Segmentation fault