Try lookinging in /var/log/urpmi.log and the archives of urpmi.log I wonder what could have caused the problem? Let us know when you find out. derek On Monday 24 December 2001 22:10, Russ Kepler wrote: > A couple of days ago I updated my Mandrake 8.1 from the mirrors at > ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS using > the Mandrake Update selection in the software manager. Nothing in the > kernel was changed as I was putting that off until later, but all the other > updates were accepted. > > Since then, and possibly connected with that action, my system has become > unstable, crashing 3 times since the update (as compared 0 times with 1.5 > months runtime before). No hardware changes were applied aside from > screwing in the video connector. The crash is hard, nothing to do but > reboot. I've put a sync() in the background to sync the disks on a 5 > second interval to minimize damage and to try and get *something* in the > syslog, but nothing comes up. > > If I could find the logs from the update I'll try and reverse the upgrades > applied - anyone know where they're kept? Short of that, anyone have any > ideas? It's a pretty standard MSI K7T mob with an Athlon 1.4 processor and > an old Diamond Viper video - it's possible something's happened here but > fairly unlikely to be intermittent. I'd like to get the system stable > before I leave on business, I'd hate to ask my wife to reboot the system > daily while I'm gone...
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