When useing yum i regularily experience the following. when yumdownloads repo meta-data for extras allot of checksum errors happen. I could understand this if the mirror is out of sync but even the redhat mirror gives this problem and the worst part is it takes me everytime up to 10 minutes to get a working metadata file. this only happens with extra's, all other repo's work fine any idea's -- Facts are stubborn things nightrid3r