On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:18:56PM +0000, Paul wrote: > rpm --vv gives me the following output ..... > error: %pre(kernel-2.6.10-1.1056_FC4.i686) scriptlet failed, exit status > 255 So what was this scriptlet? You should be able to see it rpm -q --scripts -p kernel-2.6.10-1.1056_FC4.i686.rpm and then you can try to execute these commands and check what is failing. Michal