Naw let's not let Fedora get the best of us. Two questions; 1. are you doing this as root? 2. is your rm command aliased to something else? (try "alias rm" to check).
Yes I am root.. Output from alias rm.. [root@dev02 i386]# alias rm alias rm='rm -i'
I have rebooted the system so I doubt its an open file or a hung process..