On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:03 -0800, hong zhang wrote: > I just installed Fedora 8 and disabled yum updatesd > service so that I can run yum. But 'yum install > pktgen' hangs there forever. > Any help will be appreciated. How did you make the change? Did you disable it *and* stop it? There's two separate parts to controlling services. You can set what will be started on certain run levels, and *separately* start and stop services, now. e.g. Stop yum updatesd from being started: chkconfig yum-updatesd off (this will *not* change what the service is doing at the moment) Stop it from running, when it already is: service yum-updatesd stop (this will *not* change whether it is started when the computer boots) -- (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.