On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:23 -0800, Dave Stevens wrote: > You know when yum works its great but every once in a while it just > sets my teeth on edge by failing for no apparent reason and without > any noticeable diagnostic. This happened recently. I tinkered with the > HD and had to cycle power to do so. F7 came back up saying I have > updates available. As usual I just entered the root password and hit > enter. segfault. WTF? try again while crossing my fingers and wishing. > segfault. Anyone else seeing this? two replies, no, must be you, works > for me. grump. Dig into past fedora-list mail for ideas. As a general thing, when faced with a "mine works, while yours doesn't" situation, I'd be checking hard drives (smart) and memory (memtest86+) for errors. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.