> Hmmm, it seems I've got more than one package for a culprit, though. What > causes this? It kills anaconda dead - I'd like to understand how it happens so > I can prevent it wherever possible. > It's a bad sign when I reply to myself but from the looking around I did, this bug/error message crops up a lot but there isn't a lot available to explain why. For what it's worth, I found the instructions/info here to be helpful in solving my problem as well: https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2005-May/msg00052.html (I was working with an RPM called 'XnView-static.i386.rpm'). cheers, Klaus