[expert] RPM locked up! -- Solved!

2000-05-23 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear Ernest: Thanks so much for writing. You guessed correctly. I didn't give the uninstallation (rpm -e quanta) enough time to do its job. It was taking inordinately long, but I should have waited. I had to rebuild my rpm (updateddb, rpm --rebuilddb), and now everything is OK. Thank you again.

Re: [expert] RPM locked up!

2000-05-22 Thread Barry Marler
You don't have GnoRPM or kpackage (or some other graphical frontend to RPM) running at the same time you're issuing these commands from the command line, do you? --On Monday, May 22, 2000 8:01 PM -0500 Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [root@adsl-77-233-178 sher]# rpm -e quanta > ca

[expert] RPM locked up!

2000-05-22 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: I think I did something wrong, but I can't quite figure out what it was: I tried to upgrade the new Quanta HTML Editor. I got an error message telling me that the new version conflicts with the old one. So, I decided to uninstall (rpm -e) the old one first. Everything seems fine ex