Greetings; I finally found that libxml2 dirtyness no one could explain, but now a "yum update" returns this: [root@coyote xsane-0.90]# yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: ATrpms for Fedora Core 2 stable Server: Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Base retrygrab() failed for: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/os/headers/header.info Executing failover method Server: Fedora.us Extras (Stable) retrygrab() failed for: http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info Executing failover method retrygrab() failed for: http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info Executing failover method retrygrab() failed for: http://fedora.quicknet.nl/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info Executing failover method retrygrab() failed for: http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info Executing failover method retrygrab() failed for: http://fedora.mirror.sdv.fr/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/2/i386/yum/stable/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found And my networking is working fine. Do I need a new /etc/yum.conf? -- Cheers, Gene There are 4 boxes to be used in defense of liberty. Soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order, starting now. -Ed Howdershelt, Author Additions to this message made by Gene Heskett are Copyright 2004, Maurice E. Heskett, all rights reserved.