RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
I was wondering if there is a way to fix RPM. Basically every time I launch an rpm package from an icon, RH ask for the root password and then while its processing header files, it just goes away. It crashes. Same thing when I do it from the terminal. goes: # rpm -Uvh foo.rpm Processing... #

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
thxs for the help. Is this process supppose to take a while? Cause think its working but its going on for some time and the __somefile i moved were put back in. That suppose to happen? --- Rilindo Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably have some stale locked files in your /var/rpm

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
Doh! after like 3 mins I get this error message: error: db4 error(16) from dbenv-remove: Device or resource busy ... as always I have no clue... :/ --- Miguel M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thxs for the help. Is this process supppose to take a while? Cause think its working but its going

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
the kernel version im running is 2.4.20-19.9 and I got via up2date. still not ready to build my own. Do still have to do that export thing? --- Sean Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Miguel, Any chance you're running with a custom built kernel ? You'll need to update to the

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
Only process I see is: root 2673 1 0 23:37 ?00:00:08 nautilus --sm-config-prefix /nau tilus-T58KB6/ --sm-client-id 117f0100010610877980029570003 --screen 0 fi le:///var/lib/rpm -- Not sure how to kill this. So I restart the computer and its

Re: RPM dead?

2003-08-18 Thread Miguel M.
Not sure what happened, but everything seems to be working fine (knock on wood...). Thxs to all that helped. Anyone have an idea as to what might have caused this? Dont want it to happen again... = -Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!

Re: Nvidia Driver

2003-08-16 Thread Miguel M.
Ok thxs for the help, but i tried that and it didnt work. so i put true instead of false and everything worked. just letting everyone know ;) --- Anand Buddhdev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look for a Device section which has the line 'Driver nvidia'. Insert 'Option NoLogo false' at the end of

Nvidia Driver

2003-08-15 Thread Miguel M.
Sup everyone Yeah I installed the driver and everything is working. Only thing is that when X starts, a very big nvidia splash screen comes up right b4 GDM( thats the default in RH 9, right?). I cant believe such a thing was put there... I found a way to get rid of it: Option NoLogo boolean

Re: Change computer's name

2003-08-14 Thread Miguel M.
its kind of weird b/c when i was editing all files never once did i see debian. all names where localhost.localdomain. and im not really running a network or anything. its just a cable modem im using from powerlink to use the internet. nothing special. but thxs anyway! everything has been changed.

/root messed up? (not that bad though)

2003-08-14 Thread Miguel M.
Well i dont know what happened. I went to update my /etc/apt/sources.list for APT and everything in /root was different. The RH splash screen got default gnome icons while loading. My desktop icons are the same. When i go to change the theme, bluecurve cant be read and all other themes look

Re: Change computer's name

2003-08-11 Thread Miguel M.
Estabrooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 9 Aug 2003 21:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Miguel M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sup everyone! Well i was wondering if i can change the computers name. I think its also called the host name. The thing is every time i boot into RH (9), at the login screen

Re: Change computer's name

2003-08-10 Thread Miguel M.
thxs for the help but, i dont see debian as a host name anywhere. all i see under the dns tab, it says localhost.localdomain and i dont want to touch something that might mess up. :) --- Jesse Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to the network configuration in the system settings. Its under

Change computer's name

2003-08-10 Thread Miguel M.
Sup everyone! Well i was wondering if i can change the computers name. I think its also called the host name. The thing is every time i boot into RH (9), at the login screen its says welcome to debian! ok i admit im a linux n00b so i was trying out different distros. One of them was debian. But