On Tuesday October 11, berk@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > so - rpm says mdadm depends on the so.1 Is this a problem with my > system/configuration, or in the rpm? Probably the RPM. I built in under Debian/unstable. Google finds plenty of refs for linux-gate. It is some magic 2.6 thing. I suggest you just rebuild mdadm.rpm from the source. rpm -ta mdadm-2.1.tgz NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html