On Fri, 3 Feb 2017, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Cheers John, I did find that one after sending the post, but it still doesn't > give a solution. It just says that they're going to fix 'yum' but that was in > November and it's still broken. > > I did see one post that said that ipaclient isn't needed and that it can be > removed. I've done this and the errors have gone away. As quoted in the bugzilla: "This seems to break _neither_ installation _nor_ update. From that point of view everything seems to be fine." It's not a priority fix, because it doesn't actually cause a problem. It's an unnecessary warning message. That's the only consequence, a warning message. > Unfortunately I still have the problem where 'yum check' is taking in excess > of 5 minutes though Exactly how long *should* yum check take? In the vein of "Doctor, Doctor, it hurts when I do this", well, stop doing that. Is running yum check something you like to do often? jh