Just did a RH 8 install last night and up2date hung up doing the latest patches from the other day. Ironically, there is no rpm patches that fix this glitch. Bugzilla didn't turn up anything for me. I wonder if RH thinks this things was fixed! Bugzilla it! -eric wood Robert P. J. Day wrote: > it's disappointing to see that rpm still has a talent > for hanging in the middle of an install, necessitating > a deletion of some files in /var/lib/rpm. > > any chance this is going to be fixed some day? > > rday