up2date bug?

[Dennis Gilmore]

Hi,

I just installed Severn  and when running up2date -u it explodes

an strace is 

Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-severn-i386-9.0.93...
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Fetching package list for channel: redhat-linux-severn-i386-9.0.93-updates...
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Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: redhat-linux-severn-i386-9.0.93...

Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: 
redhat-linux-severn-i386-9.0.93-updates...

Fetching rpm headers...
exploded!###################
[{fd=5, events=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}, {fd=3, events=POLLIN, 
revents=POLLHUP}], 3, -1) = 1
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
waitpid(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 255], WNOHANG) = 4383
write(6, "", 0)                         = 0
write(6, "\21\0\0\0\37\21\0\0\0\377\0\0", 12) = 12
sigreturn()                             = ? (mask now [])
read(3, "", 2048)                       = 0
ioctl(4, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}, {fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 2, -1) = 
1
read(5, "\21\0\0\0\37\21\0\0\0\377\0\0", 12) = 12
open("/usr/share/locale/en_AU.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_AU.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
write(4, "+\0\1\0", 4)                  = 4
read(4, "\1\0011\0\0\0\0\0\3\0@\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\240\v"..., 32) = 32
write(4, "\1\0\n\0\4\0 \3H\0\0\0\234\377\234\377\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 92) = 92
exit_group(0)

Any ideas?  it is trying to update 369 packages.  too much?  should i manually 
d/l and install them?

Regards

Dennis