On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 09:10, Phil Mattison wrote:
> I tried up2date -u on a RH7.2 system I use for development, and it crashed
> after I'm not sure how long. I did update up2date itself before starting.
> This did not inspire confidence. I'm seeing a lot of recommendations for
> Debian, maybe I'll look into it. Stability is what I want most.
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sounds like your rpm db is corrupted

try 

up2date --rebuilddb

and then

up2date -u

Craig