On Saturday 21 December 2002 04:17 pm, Seth Williamson wrote: > I just installed Mandrake 9.0 on my system today for the first time. > > I am puzzled by the behavior of the Mandrake update system. > > When I start it, it (seemingly) just sits there for three or four or five > minutes doing nothing. The first time I tried the update, I thought the > system had locked up or something and nothing was happening. But > apparently, it's working, but moving very S-L-O-W-L-Y. > > Another two or three minutes elapses between all the other steps of > determining what packages are needed, contacting the mirror sites, and > finally downloading and installing the software. The downloads themselves > seem to proceed at a normal rate for my connection. > > Then, once the software is downloaded and installed, I can't seem to kill > rmpdrake. It just sits there. After it tells me the software was > installed successfully, and I OK out of that little box, then I hit the > "quit" button, but the button won't depress, suggesting that the app is > locked up or just not responding. I have to kill it with xkill. > > Is this normal behavior? I don't have a particularly fast connection--I'm > on dial-up at 56K--but coming from a Debian distro (Libranet), the whole > thing seems clunky and slow to me, and it strikes me as a bad idea that > newbies can't tell if the update operation is actually moving along, or if > it's locked up. Not normal behavior, but I can't say what might be wrong. Maybe uninstall rpmdrake and reinstall it from the CDs? HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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