On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:11 +0000, Chris Nolan wrote: > I think the OP already disabled the yum-updatesd service and is asking > what it could be that is trying to connect to yum-updatesd and > erroring because the service isn't running. Probably "puplet" the "software update notifier", which can be found in your session preferences as a "startup program". It makes use of that service to see what's available as an update, then gives you notices about them. Try unticking it, and see if the problem goes away. -- (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.