I just installed a 8.0 machine over the network, I am trying to install additional packages and rpm seems to stall... If I do an strace, I get.. open("/var/lib/rpm/Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=9375744, ...}) = 0 brk(0x826e000) = 0x826e000 brk(0x826f000) = 0x826f000 select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 1000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 2000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 4000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 8000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 16000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 32000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 64000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 128000}) = 0 (Timeout) select(0, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 256000} <unfinished ...> I can't use any rpm function, install, query... Ideas? -- | Richard Nairn Specializing in Linux | Nairn Consulting Web / Database Solutions | Calgary, AB | Richard@NairnConsulting.ca -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list