On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 18:37 +0200, sebastiano at datafaber.net wrote: > And there's also plenty of available space on the other 5 boxes which > exhibit the same issue. Sorry if this has been suggested already - have you tried running with all plugins disabled? 'yum --noplugins check-update' I have a very vague memory of encountering a problem similar to this years ago when my mirrors file was corrupted.