On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:54:57 +0000 Margot disseminated the following:
Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I install MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to which I get 'command not found'.
Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]# urpme mldonkey unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
WTF?
When I've used urpme it has always given me a reason if it was unable to remove something. This message looks incomplete - did you get back to the prompt?
Yep, it comes back to a root prompt. No details.
I see you were su rather than root when you tried it - maybe you need to be logged in as root ("su -" rather than just "su"). Or you could try to remove it via rpmdrake in mcc.
Same thing, except weirder. I run 'drakconf' from a term while in a VNC session (wait 3 minutes for MCC to start cuz it's a P166), seemingly remove mldonkey successfully (no errors from MCC), but when I close MCC, the term shows the same output as before:
unable to remove package mldonkey-2.5.4+2-0.20040105.1plf
and when I do a 'rpm -q mldonkey', sure enough, it's still there.
I've tried removing and reinstalling other packages, and it appears to be only this mldonkey package that is misbehaving so.
This is the first time I've ever encountered this in over 3 years of using Mandrake :-\
How very odd! I'm not familiar with mldonkey, I have no idea what it does, but could it be that it is still running, or possibly being used by something else, while you are trying to remove it? That's the only reason I can think of as to why you might have difficulty removing it - after that, I'm afraid I'm out of ideas!
Margot
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