Thanks to both of you: Gandalf for posting and Sean for his response. I had glanced at the original posts and said 'Bummer', and moved on when lo & behold this morning, I got the same error and recognized it from the NBLUG post. I checked here first, and 'yum clean all' did the trick. -dave. -- Dave Sisley dsisley at sonic.net roth-sisley.net