Craig White wrote: > ---- > this is a continual problem with psyche - I'm sure it's in bugzilla > somewhere. > > command shell as root or su - > > ps aux|grep rpm > > kill all processes that show up from ps query > > then > > rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__* > > then rpm --rebuilddb Had the files, but not the process. up2date was sitting there, but no rpms in the ps output. I killed up2date, deleted the files, and the rebuild is underway. I'll try again with up2date once I'm back from a trip. Thansk to all for the replies. James