On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 12:00 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > Yum is working without problems, but yumex appears to be broken on my > installation. This is FC4, with all updates applied. When I open > yumex it appears to go into an endless loop,initializing repositories, > citing filelists.xml.gz. > > Advice, please? First suggestion: Stop, kill it, wait a while before trying again. See if it does the same thing five minutes later. YUM seems bad at handling problems. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.