On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:59 -0400, Joshua Jensen wrote: > Oops, sorry to steal this thread. I'll get my own next time. > long and short of it - before yum does the pid check it has to parse the config file. In order to parse the config file it has to open the rpmdb. the rpmdb open is hanging b/c of the other wedged process. -sv