m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I think I understand how it occurred. >> I tried to yum-remove a package >> (I don't remember which one, but it wasn't important) >> and I was told that 300+ packages would be removed. >> I wasn't sure it I would be asked yes/no to this >> (I know now that I will always be asked to approve) >> so I stopped the commend with ctrt-C. >> Since then I have had these problems. > > I think you have bigger problems. I don't think that <ctrl-c> out of yum > is the problem. > > One dumb question: what's the output of uname -a - *are* you running a > 64-bit kernel? Thanks for your response. [tim at alfred glibc]$ uname -a Linux alfred.gayleard.eu 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 16 00:01:37 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Have you tried yum clean all? I have. More than once. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin