> What rpm version is this with? Does any of the rpms within > Oracle-Client group do anything with rpm in it's scriptlets? > > Rather than killing yum can you chroot and report > > cd /var/lib/rpm > /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_stat -CA I'll try to get the hang duplicated and run the above command. Yum didn't even start downloading the headers inside the yumgroup; also, there are no rpm commands in the scriptlets. This is rpm-4.2.3-21_nonptl on RHEL 3 Update 5. /Brian/ -- Brian Long | | | IT Data Center Systems | .|||. .|||. Cisco Linux Developer | ..:|||||||:...:|||||||:.. Phone: (919) 392-7363 | C i s c o S y s t e m s