After cleaning up the issues with yum consuming the machine by allocating memory until it croaked (versioning issue with sqlite), and with the machine now stable and fully updated, I happened to notice this message at the start of yum runs: # yum check-update Warning, could not load sqlite, falling back to pickle Is this expected, or indication of a further problem? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie dts at senie.com Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com "George Orwell was only off by 20 years. Had he titled his book 2004 instead of 1984, he'd have been hailed as prescient. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength." -dts