On a fully updated FC5 (as of say, 2 days ago), when started as root, rpm hangs even for simple queries. The last few things it does (according to strace) are: open("/var/lib/rpm/Name", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=40960, ...}) = 0 futex(0xb7d32900, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL This doesn't happen if I start rpm as a normal user (and has never happened before for root). I see no selinux related messages in the logs. Any ideas? Andras