https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208059 This report has an x86_64 Xen guest where _libdir is expanding to /usr/lib; perhaps /etc/rpm/platform needs to be set up by the Xen guest-creating scripts? Is this a known issue? Paul, if you do: echo x86_64-redhat-linux > /etc/rpm/platform does that fix the problem? joe