Filipe Brandenburger wrote on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:35:16 -0500: > You can just remove the __db* files (if you're sure they're there because of an rpm interrupted process, check first if there are no rpm processes running). __db* are Berkeley DB's lockfiles and are used for transactions inside Berkeley DB. You don't need to rebuild anything, the RPM database is on the other files on that directory. Once you remove the locks you'll be able to access it normally. Hm, the files are __db.001, __db.002 and __db.003 and range up to a size of over one MB, so they cannot be lockfiles. Yeah, maybe they are interim transaction files. After removing and doing an rpm query they are back there, in exactly the same size. I'd rather think they are indexes, there is no transaction necessary for a read query. Anyway, after removing and rebuilding them yum works! Thanks. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com