> > > > How did you back up /usr? > > cp -a /mnt/l2/usr/* /mnt/linux/usr/ That should not replace links with their contents. Something is amiss. BTW - you should really do instead 'cp -a /mnt/l2/usr /mnt/linux'. There is likely no difference in this particular case but in general it is. 'cp -ax ...' also comes often handy. > > I installed FC3 clean from the CDs - wiped the partitions, selected > packages, you know, did it clean. So where this stuff you backed up in /mnt/linux/usr/ is coming into the picture? > The only ldconfig I have are in /sbin/ldconfig. Yes. So? > That rpm wasn't installed! How did you manage that trick? You mean that you were picking every package for an installation "manually" and installed by explicitly switching root with -r option to rpm? > It is coming up with a lot of prelink errors If you replaced various files from the time the last prelink was done then you will see that. Run /etc/cron.daily/prelink script and they should vanish. Michal