I inadvertently pasted the same package name in the command twice and rpm dumped core. The text of the error is listed below: [root@gibson cgi-bin]# rpm -e pilot-link error: removing these packages would break dependencies: pilot-link is needed by kpilot-3.1b9-4 pilot-link is needed by pilot-link-devel-0.9.3-3 libpisock.so.3 is needed by kpilot-3.1b9-4 [root@gibson cgi-bin]# rpm -e pilot-link kpilot-3.1b9-4 pilot-link-devel-0.9.3-3 kpilot-3.1b9-4 cannot read packages named kpilot for uninstall Segmentation fault (core dumped) [root@gibson cgi-bin]# rpm -e pilot-link kpilot-3.1b9-4 pilot-link-devel-0.9.3-3 error: package pilot-link is not installed error: package kpilot-3.1b9-4 is not installed error: package pilot-link-devel-0.9.3-3 is not installed [root@gibson cgi-bin]# rpm -q rpm rpm-3.0.5-9.6x
*** Bug 17242 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 15636 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Collecting duplicates at bugzilla #7771 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7771 ***