On Sunday 13 October 2002 11:19 pm, Franki wrote: > Hi guys, > > > After proclaiming my mdk9 install to be a success, I find myself kinda > embarrased. > > I tried to install an app with urpmi <appname> and it didn't work. > > Then I tried to fire up MandrakeUpdate,,, same result.. it displays > "please wait finding available packages" and that message never > disapears. (been up for 36 hours now.) > > Then I tried rpm --rebuilddb > > no good, just sits there doing nothing. > > even a query like: > > rpm -qa | grep kde > > just sits there... > > ditto with installing: > urpmi gkrellm > > has just sat there doing nothing for 12 hours. > > and I can't find anything interesting in syslog about it... > > anyone know whats going on???
I don't know EXACTLY what is going on, but it looks like something that occured to me over the weekend. try "rpm -qa" as root -- does it hang about midway thru? try "rpm -qa" as a user -- it completes normally. What I ended up doing was dropping into single user mode, and trying a rpm --rebuilddb, but that hung also (note, I also used a -vvvv option, and it always hung in the same place) rebooted to rescue disk, mounted the disks containing /var/lib/rpm and another disk mount /dev/hdg2 /mnt/disk --- for /var/lib/rpm mkdir /var/tmp mount /dev/hdg1 /var/tmp -- rpm rebuild needs some space here, hdg1 is usually iso work space rpm -vvvv --rebuilddb --dbpath /mnt/disk/var/lib/rpm then rebooted, this fixed the problem, YMMV.... -- Alex / KC2IVL ft100 software for Linux http://www.qsl.net/kc2ivl "Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment"
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