On Friday 28 September 2001 23:28, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Cooker and on 8.1, I can't add a new source (hard disk 8.1 repository) > to rpmdrake. So I tried my old favourite kpackage - that kept crashing > after a long time loading the database. I had a konqueror window open on > /var/lib/rpm and saw those two files beginning __ being continually > created and deleted.
Bad RPMs. I was also running kpackage as root (kdesu) out of habit. It works much better when simply invoked as `kpackage` and giving the root password when prompted. It's also a good idea to always check "test" first, then you keep your selections while you investigate any errors. > [...] -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ). Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) for i586, kernel 2.4.8-26mdk. XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 17mdk. KDE: 2.2.1. Qt: 2.3.1. Uptime: 19:29
