Hi, Running Transaction Updating : selinux-policy 1/6 Updating : kmod-r8168 2/6 Working. This may take some time ... An hour later, still working... S+ 10:51 0:08 | \_ /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/yum update S+ 10:53 0:00 | \_ /bin/sh /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9003 2 S+ 10:53 0:00 | \_ /bin/bash /sbin/weak-modules --add-modules S+ 10:53 0:00 | \_ /bin/bash --norc /sbin/mkinitrd --allow-missing -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.tmp 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 S+ 10:53 0:00 | \_ /bin/bash --norc /sbin/mkinitrd --allow-missing -f /boot/initrd-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.tmp 2.6.18-274.17.1.el5 D+ 10:53 0:00 | \_ lvm.static lvs --ignorelockingfailure --noheadings -o vg_name /dev/md1 I tried an strace but nothing shows up. Now, it is in: T+and strace showed me it was/is stuck on "phantom" usb devices and doing lvm stuff while I do not use lvm... Should I wait or can I just ctrl-c, reset the usb_storage module to clean up and retry yum update? Thx, JD