Same system as my last message:
My system is a home-built EPOX 8KHA/1.4 Athlon/768 Meg ram/100gig WD1000BB
My partition table looks like this:
94 meg /
94 meg (future)
94 meg (future)
94 meg (future)
200 meg /boot
380 meg /swap
Remaining is LVM
LVM:
4 gig /usr
4 gig /var
4 gig /home
Preface: Since my previous installs didn't work, I decided to try a new
tack. I installed a fresh 8.2 installation, working from the first CD
alone. I then tried an Upgrade, and ended up with another 5 installs
(0. - I have a usbmouse and using an auto config floppy, doesn't configure
the mouse properly again. Even in 8.2. This seems to be reproducible,
unlike everything else)
The first three were tried with the "Expert/Upgrade" option.
1. - Hung during the find partitions step on /dev/hdb6. So I reboot
2. - This time it makes it past all the partitions, and I select the
/dev/hda1 partition to upgrade. As it is reading the RPMs from the 8.2
install, I get this message on the console tty.
"rpmdb: damaged header instace #202 retrieval, skipping"
It doesn't really skip it, it just loops over and over again. Reboot
again.
3. - Makes it farther. Kernel panic on checking /usr partition (in the
LVM)
The Fourth install was "expert/upgrade packages" option
4. - This time it upgrades, and I finish the installation. I reboot. Then
the fun begins.
a. during startup init.d/usb gives a message about "expr not found".
b. X doesn't start, and it starts up at a console a la Runlevel 3
c. I try "startx" to manually bring up X. No luck.
"libglx.a" is unresolved.
d. That is in XFree86-server, and I try a verify that works, but the file
is definetly not there.
e. I remove XFree86 and XFree86-server, and then reinstall them.
f. my usb mouse is not activated, which makes X not so much fun. I try a
reboot, still nothing.
g. I bring up X and use mousedrake. I'm able to select the wheel mouse,
and restart X. Now the mouse works again.
h. I notice that rpmdrake and MandrakeUpdate don't work because URPM.so
is having a problem loading librpm-4.0.4 (that's close to the name, I
didn't write it down. oops). I figure out that the upgrade didn't update
rpm.
i. I try to manually install rpm. It has a long list of dependencies,
but I get them all and the install starts.
j. Bad. Not all of the rpms fail, but enough do: rpm, libstdc++5-devel,
kernelheaders, libbinutils2, binutils, gcc, gcc-c++. These complain that
there are "MD5 sun mismatch" with cpio.
k. not rpm doesn't even recognize -qilp as an option. Ugh. It's hosed.
Now I can't do anything.
l. In exasperation, I shutdown. The shutdown fails during umount.
m. I hit the reset button.
Overall, I'm really glad I decided to not mess with my existing year old
8.2 installation.
Scott Carlson
PS. I don't subscribe to the list. No time at this point. :(
I am willing to try and answer questions if I can help
