Thanks Rolf.....I took our advice, urpmi.removemedia -a and started over. Then here, urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom/ worked like a charm, plus the other added selections. No more errors.
_Thanks much --- Rolf Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tru64 User wrote: > > --- Rolf Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > >>You have to give the name of a source to update or > >>the -a switch to > >>update all. Since you will not need to update the > >>removable media, you > >>would probably want something like: > >> > >>urpmi.update update_source > >> > >>for example. You might want to remove the 'Udates > >>for Mandrake Linux > >>8.2' source in the 'Manage Sources' part of > >>rpmdrake. Presumably, > >>update_source provides your security updates. > >> > >>Rolf > >> > >>Rolf > > > > > > It errors out same way regardless of command: > > > > # urpmi.update -a > > unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux > 8.2 > > (ftp1u)" into account as no list file > > [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux > 8.2 > > (ftp1u)] exists > > examining synthesis file > > [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.disc 1 Download > > Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1).cz] > > unable to uncompress synthesis file at > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/urpm.pm line 869. > > > > #urpmi.update update_source > > unable to take medium "Updates for Mandrake Linux > 8.2 > > (ftp1u)" into account as no list file > > [/var/lib/urpmi/list.Updates for Mandrake Linux > 8.2 > > (ftp1u)] exists > > examining synthesis file > > [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.disc 1 Download > > Edition Installation CD (x86) (cdrom1).cz] > > unable to uncompress synthesis file at > > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/urpm.pm line 869. > > > > I don't know, it appears you may have multiple > sources of error. That > file, urpm.pm belongs to urpmi and, although I don't > think this is one > likely problem, you could see if the package has > been corrupted with: > > rpm -V urpmi > > Otherwise, it looks like some files have been > deleted or corrupted. > Have you been deleting files? Is a hard drive going > bad or has a bad > shutdown caused corruption? You seem to have > configured a lot of > sources: (ftp1u) (one of disc 1 Download Edition > Installation CD (x86) > (cdrom1), disc 2 Download Edition Second > Installation > CD (x86) (cdrom2), disc 3 Download Edition > Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom3), disc 3 Download > Edition Contributions CD (x86) (cdrom4), > mirrors.secsup.org, update_source, downloads) and > there is a, > seemingly, redundant source for updates: ftp1u or > update_source. > > I have recovered from accidental deletion of files > by deleting and > re-adding sources but I don't know well enough what > is the situation on > your box. Some suggestions: > > Do urpmi.removemedia -a and start over. You can add > them by hand in the > 'manage sources' module of rpmdrake, or whatever it > is, that has been a > while ago. Just give CD1, CD2, etc for the name, > the path is to the > RPMS directory when the disk is in the reader, and > relative path to > hdlist is ../base/hdlist.cz, ../base/hdlist2.cz, > etc. Add each with CD1 > in the drive as all the hdlist.cz's are on CD1 and > verify the names of > the files. > > In 9.1, I don't know about 8.2, you can add all the > install source CD's > with one command, with CD1 in the reader: > urpmi.addmedia --distrib removable://mnt/cdrom/ > > adjust the path to reflect what you have for a > reader mount point. > > Also, you might try removing the CD1 source (plus > ftp1u) then re-adding > it only with sources manager, since that gives the > error. However, it > might be the first of a string of failures. > > Once you've got the install sources added, you can > add an update_source > with MandrakeUpdate or the sources manager, plus > configure additional > 8.2 sources here: http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/ > > These are just general suggestions as I can't > imagine the state of your > machine. See man urpmi, urpmi.addmedia, et al. > > Rolf > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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