Hi, On 18/08/05, bascule <asura at theexcession.co.uk> wrote: > since urpmi is a frontend for rpm perhaps you have lockfiles in /var/lib/rpm/? > look for file of the form __db* You nailed it - there was a file in /var/lib/rpm called RPMLOCK. Once I got rid of it, rpmdrake and urpmi worked just fine. Have a beer voucher! Thanks again, Glenn.