You might want to try: # rpm --rebuilddb
..and then try YOU to check for the updates try install again, if that fails you might try refresh the kernel and source, again via YOU. rpm --rebuilddb rebuilds your rpm database. I was experiencing some flaky update behavior and that cleared it up nicely. Just a few more ideas. Good luck Marcel On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 22:56 -0700, Shawn wrote: > On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:43, Marcel A. Lecker wrote: > > sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run ..without flags? > > > > Also what are your permissions like on: > > NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run? > > > > I usually chmod them to 700 for good measure. > > > > Any of that help? > > > > Marcel > > No luck. Running NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7167-pkg1.run without flags results in > not being able to find the kernel source, so I added the --kernel-source-path > parameter, and watched the system lock up when the compile was 100% complete. > > I also did a chmod 700 on the file which made no difference. When I checked > ownership, th 7167 version of the file was owned by root:root, and the > earlier version was owned by sgrover:users. Seeing as I have seen the > earlier version work, I tried to chown th 7167 version to sgrover:users - no > difference. I tell you, this is VERY frustrating - so much so that I've > taken to getting KDE compiled on Gentoo (on a spare drive). If that works > properly, I'll probably just move away from Suse (at least until a fresh > install). > > So, I'm still looking for a solution. Thanks for the suggestions though. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
