duncan brown said: > i must ammend my last post: > > that should NEVER work, you ALWAYS need to rebuild the rpm database after > removing those files. **those are your rpm database files** [snip] >> rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* No they're not. They are lock files. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73097 -- William Hooper