I tried to do a yum update. It turns out someone had turned on yum-updatesd on that machine. My update proceeded until the transaction test and hung: [snip] Downloading Packages: {snip] (8/8): devhelp-0.13-13.fc 100% |=========================| 183 kB 00:03 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Before, when I stupidly tried to do a yum update with yum-updatesd running, it has given me an error message about a locked resource or something. Not this time. I stopped yum-updatesd, no help there. How can I get it unstuck? TIA, Dave