> Agreed!! I have 2 of them that do this. I might have more but I only > have 2 of them setup to build rpms on. > > > this doesn't happen with any of the other pkgs you try to install? > > No it does not. In fact I just did this with a couple of rpms tonight. > Jeff Johnson mentioned something to me offlist - he said segfaults in rpm are either a corrupt pkg hdr or a corrupt rpmdb. might be worth trying an rpm -ivh on a new machine. -sv