Hello Warren, > RPM ever since RH9 has been shipping with an internalized db4, I think > for the purpose of working without NPTL. It works great, and I have > used it every day since RH9's beta. The built in db4 obviously is not the reason why rpm fails on anything less than a pentium. NPTL code inside rpm is. Read the bug report for details. Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research