On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, shorton wrote:
> I rebuild the rpm database: rpm --rebuild
> I re-rpm'd the rpm-rpm by:
>
> rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.0.2-6x.i386.rpm
It is generally a Bad Idea to force installs.
> That didn't work (still get error):
>
> [root@xxx]# rpm -Uvh initscripts* setup*
> error: failed dependencies:
> /sbin/fuser is needed by initscripts-5.00-1
% rpm -q --whatprovides /sbin/fuser
psmisc-20.2-2
This is from RH 7.3, but you might try the same command. If you don't get
a package name and version back, then maybe someone else here can tell you
which package it ought to be.
Then you can do one of the following:
(1) Check for corruption of that package
% rpm --verify psmisc
(2) Check to make sure that you don't need to update any packages that
initscripts depends on. My guess is that older versions of initscripts
didn't require /sbin/fuser as an explicit dependency and old versions of
psmisc (or whatever includes it) didn't provide it as an explicit
dependency. You will need to upgrade the package containing /sbin/fuser
as well as initscripts.
(3) You can always "rpm -Uvh --nodeps initscripts..." if you know the
dependency is satisfied, but you should be careful, as other things can
break also if you skip dependency checking (especially with initscripts!).
"--force" is different from "--nodeps" but at least as risky.
--
Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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