Hi,
Has anyone had any problems with Mandrake Update freezing during the
updates? I was trying to perform a bunch of the updates, maybe about half,
and the MandrakeUpdate froze during the actual installation. Doing a
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace or Ctrl-Alt-Delete did not do anything! Mouse and
keyboard were non-responsive. The harddrive was making tons of noise, so it
got stuck doing something. If I selected one or two of the updates, that
seemed to work OK. After rebooting, I re-ran MandrakeUpdate, and the
potential list of security updates was the same as before I started, even
though I successfully updated some of the entries before, almost like my RPM
database is messed up.
Could it have something to do with the RPM database? maybe it needs to be
rebuilt before installing the new security updates? (I'm not at my linux
box to try it now...). I am running Mandrake 7.2, 2.2.17 kernel. This was
under KDE 2.01.
Can someone tell me what the command is to update the RPM database?
Thanks,
Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Patches
> Just run Mandrake Update, and it will give you a list of all available and
> applicable security patches for your system. Choose "Select All", then "Do
> Updates", and it's all automated from there...
>
> Dave
>
> At 02:25 PM 01/26/2001 -0500, you wrote:
> >How can I get all of the security updates in one swoop? Are they packaged
> >somewhere or would I have to download each patch separately?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >The Moose
>
> Dave Sherman
> SoftServ Business Systems, Inc. "Quid quid latine dictum sit,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] altum viditur."
> (763) 569-9839
>
