Re: [newbie] Frozen RPMDrake

2002-02-08 Thread Walter de Bruin
- Original Message - From: Marc Audard [EMAIL PROTECTED] I managed to rebuild the RPM database, while this did not improve the situation. RPMDrake always stops at 68% when reading the FTP site of LM8.0 updates. From what I gather from the Linux Usenet groups, the update function is a

Re: [newbie] Frozen RPMDrake

2002-02-08 Thread Walter Logeman
RPMDrake always stops at 68% when reading the FTP site of LM8.0 updates. I have already mentioned this in the Installing Files thread - but it is OT here: How did you configure RPMDrake to go there? Upon opening RPMDrake checks the database of installed files etc. I have explored it but

Re: [newbie] Frozen RPMDrake

2002-02-07 Thread skinky
On Thursday 07 February 2002 22:22, Marc Audard wrote: Hi, If you would like to reply, please do it also to my e-mail address, since I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Thanks. I had last time run rpmdrake to update my packages. Since my modem connection was very low and rpmdrake was

Re: [newbie] Frozen RPMDrake

2002-02-07 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 07 February 2002 03:22, you wrote: Hi, If you would like to reply, please do it also to my e-mail address, since I am not subscribed to the mailing list. Thanks. I had last time run rpmdrake to update my packages. Since my modem connection was very low and rpmdrake was very

Re(2): [newbie] Frozen RPMDrake

2002-02-07 Thread Brian Durant
You could try rebuilding the rpm database. # rpm --rebuilddb I experienced the freeze as well, when I had just installed on an IBM Aptiva. I believe this is a known issue in Mandrake 8??? Try logging in as root and running RPMDrake from there. BTW, it should be done from the console. Ya