Steve, thank you for reply. it made my long night shorter. On 03/02/2016 05:40 AM, Steve Clark wrote: <<>> -- > You can use rpm -v -V -a to check the validity of all your packages or > rpm -v -V pkgname to check a single package. > -- never used '-V'. "one is never too old to learn something new". and i am one of those 'one'. > See the following link for details. > http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-verify.html > -- that is one nice page to bring understanding of verify. your reply has brought brought an end to my 'watch word', perseverance. having always persevered in what i do, this is one time that a command option has convinced me that i need to wipe a partition and reinstall. there were close to 2K lines of missing dependencies which is close to the number of packages installed. there is now much doubt that i would have been able to repair system without a lot time and aggravation. all this does prove one thing, i need to check my biorhythms more often. biorhythm 2016-0302: emotional -85% rising, physical +90% rising, intellectual + 8% falling http://www.degraeve.com/bio.php my biorhythm plots are not 100%, but they have proved out about 75% of time. btw, i am using my laptop at this time as i no longer trust my desktop. ;-) now pulling 6.7 netinstall. next is to copy grub.conf and fstab to ~/geo. after, i will copy /home partition so i can resize '/' partition and move extended partition down on drive. re-sizing '/' is because of another -% intellectual day and i made '/' 80GB. :-) again, i thank you very much for your reply. it was of great help and will make this day more enjoyable. take care, have a good one. -- peace out. -- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. -- CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6 tc,hago. g .