Not sure what you mean by "non-tree leaves," but glad to have some confirmation of the rpmdrake hangs.
On another note, every package I update with urpmi recently has been reported as having "bad signatures." None of these are Contribs - all standard Cooker. And, yesterday I found that urpmi was telling me that everything was already install, though it obviously wasn't when I went to the mirror that I reference. I had run urpmi.update already (and did it again after getting that message), and the synthesis.hdlist.cz was the newest file in the mirror (so that wasn't out-of-sync either). I'll try again today when I get home from work. Thanks Jay On Friday 14 February 2003 02:31 pm, Guillaume Cottenceau honored me with this communique: > Jay DeKing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > Yes, I've had this problem for at least two versions - so bad, in fact, > > that I've been doing all of my updates from the command line via urpmi. I > > open Konqueror on my favorite mirror and sort by date, rpm -q for the > > newest packages to see if I need to update them, and run urpmi for them > > if necessary. > > As for me, it seems that it happens when non tree leaves are > selected. Selecting another thing seems to workaround. > > > rpmdrake, on the other hand, hangs completely (not every time, but if not > > on the first package group, soon thereafter) if I use it to install > > updates. It appears to install the software, but does not return the "All > > packages were installed successfully" dialog. > > I think I had seen that at the end of normal rpmdrake too. > > > Running gps or ps -ef shows that grpmi (called by rpmdrake) has zombied. > > Worse, it won't respond to a hangup signal and can't be killed, except by > > sending rpmdrake a hangup signal. > > > > The package being installed when the hangup occurs *appears* to have gone > > in successfully, but without confirmation via completion of the rpmdrake > > process, how can I be certain? "rpm -qa <packagename>" says so, but I > > doubt that this checks every facet of the new software. What if something > > is missing from some critical packages? > > rpm -V? > > > I've checked all the dependencies of rpmdrake and grpmi and made sure > > that they were updated. > > Yes, the problem is still there. I've yet to investigate & try to > fix or work-around the problem. -- What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
