Re: rpm problem

2003-07-03 Thread Peter Peltonen
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 13:49, snort bsd wrote: > bottom lline is that i want to reinstall that package Try: rpm -Uvh --force packagefilename Regards, Peter -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: rpm problem

2003-07-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Dave, > when i accidently deleted a rpm package with cmd "rm" > instead of "rpm -e" (the package was installed via cmd > "rpm -iv), how could I clean up the rest of rpm thing? rpm -ev --justdb > where is the > log file for rpm to track installed packages? The rpm database is located under

rpm problem

2003-07-03 Thread snort bsd
hi: when i accidently deleted a rpm package with cmd "rm" instead of "rpm -e" (the package was installed via cmd "rpm -iv), how could I clean up the rest of rpm thing? since now rpm refuses to reinstall that package and claims the packages had been installed. where is the log file for rpm to track

RH 9.0/8.0.94 and rpm problem

2003-03-29 Thread Haisam K. Ido
I've installed 8.0.94 (beta) and rpm -i never stops running. I have to use kill -9 and rpm --rebuilddb does'nt stop either. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: rpm problem

2003-03-14 Thread Steve Lee
that worked. not sure how i installed two kernels of the same they were the "athalon" On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:22:34 -0800 (PST), Steve Lee wrote: > > > i'm trying to clean up my rpm database and u

Re: rpm problem

2003-03-14 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:22:34 -0800 (PST), Steve Lee wrote: > i'm trying to clean up my rpm database and upgrade > to a new kernel. however, when i do a > > rpm -qa | grep ^kernel > > i get two of the same kernel > > kernel-2.4.18-19.7.x > kernel

rpm problem

2003-03-14 Thread Steve Lee
i'm trying to clean up my rpm database and upgrade to a new kernel. however, when i do a rpm -qa | grep ^kernel i get two of the same kernel kernel-2.4.18-19.7.x kernel-2.4.18-19.7.x when i try to delete one, i get an error rpm -e kernel-2.4.18-19.7.x error: "kernel-2.4.18-19.7.x" specifi

RPM problem

2003-03-14 Thread Jacky Li
Hi there, When I tried to run a rpm --rebuild to rebuild the database. It seems like it just hangs and doing anything. I am suspecting a corrupt database. When I use the package program under X, it hangs at the point of looking at the headers. Now the rpm cron jobs are backup up: root

Re: rpm problem on redhat 8

2003-03-11 Thread lito lampitoc
Demik, Salamat! On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:48, Dennis Pabalan wrote: > > > > rpm locks up , delete the the ff files after killing the rpm process > * > /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 > /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 > /var/lib/rpm/__db.003 > * > try to update the rpm utility package :) > > > lito lampitoc wrote

Re: rpm problem on redhat 8

2003-03-11 Thread Dennis Pabalan
rpm locks up , delete the the ff files after killing the rpm process * /var/lib/rpm/__db.001 /var/lib/rpm/__db.002 /var/lib/rpm/__db.003 * try to update the rpm utility package :) lito lampitoc wrote: most of the time when I am installing an rpm package from my gui terminal, the installation sto

rpm problem on redhat 8

2003-03-11 Thread lito lampitoc
most of the time when I am installing an rpm package from my gui terminal, the installation stops, the hash just hang and it will take forever, i will just then close my terminal session and login again, i will notice that last rpm command is still in the process, then I will kill it and start an r

Re: rpm problem

2003-01-10 Thread Schotty
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 11:39, Andre Kirchner wrote: > Hi, > > for some reason the rpm deature isn't working anymore > at my RH 8.0. Where does the rpm stores the > information about the installed packages? If it was > corrupted, is there a way to fix it? Hello, what exactly is wrong? If when you

rpm problem

2003-01-09 Thread Andre Kirchner
Hi, for some reason the rpm deature isn't working anymore at my RH 8.0. Where does the rpm stores the information about the installed packages? If it was corrupted, is there a way to fix it? Thanks, Andre __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Power

rpm problem with rh 8.0

2002-10-11 Thread Haisam K. Ido
I installed 8.0 (over 7.3) and now I have an rpm problem. After boot up I am able to run 'rpm -qa'; however, after a few 'rpm -i' or 'rpm -qa's rpm no longer responds. The processes no longer end and they consume very little resources. The only fix I fo

Re: rpm problem with rh 8.0

2002-10-11 Thread Marius Andreiana
On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 13:44, Haisam K. Ido wrote: > I installed 8.0 (over 7.3) and now I have an rpm problem See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68056 Steps on how to replicate it are welcome in the bug report. -- You don't have to go to jail for helping your n

mysql-3.23.49-3.i386.rpm problem

2002-06-25 Thread Zhi-Wei Lu
Dear Redhat guru, I have encountered some problem with mysql-3.23.49-3.i386.rpm on a Redhat 7.3 installation. My perl and c api program will core dump at DBI->connect($dsn) for perl and mysql_real_connect (conn, host_name, user_name, password, db_name, port_num, sock

Re: rpm problem (re-post)

2002-04-15 Thread Bill Piety
Nick Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi all > I'm getting this... > > - - --- > > ImportError: librpm-4.0.4.so cannot open shared object file: no such > file or directory. > > - - --- > > when running up2date > > This problem started after tryi

rpm problem (re-post)

2002-04-12 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all I'm getting this... - - --- ImportError: librpm-4.0.4.so cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory. - - --- when running up2date This problem started after trying to upgrade rpm with up2date last time! Can someone

RPM problem

2002-01-10 Thread Pål-Dag Line
I,m running Redhat 7.1 on my Dell inspiron 3800 laptop and have installed Ximian Gnome. A few days ago, I was uninstalling some packages using GnomeRPM, and the application crashed. After that, it seems like my rpm database is in some way corrupted, and I'm not able to use rpm tools for maintaini

upgrading gnome-pim rpm problem

2000-10-20 Thread Roy G. Culley
Hello, I am running redhat 6.2 on a sparc ultra-5 workstation. When I try and upgrade the gnome-pim rpm I get the following error: rpm -U gnome-pim-1.2.0-5.sparc.rpm only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM error: gnome-pim-1.2.0-5.sparc.rpm cannot be inst

Re: rpm problem

2000-09-19 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 10:41:26 +0200, you wrote: >Any idea where I can find information to resolve this problem? Is there a >specific documentation for these new "build policies"? No documentation. If you look at the and of /usr/lib/rpm/rpmpopt you see: # Build policies enabled from command line

Re: rpm problem

2000-09-19 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 03:57:20 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >things and sometimes even goes at least partway through the build. Then it >stops with no error, no signals as to what went wrong or anything to >indicate a binary wasn't built, and worse, no binary. Unfortunately, the fact that rpm stops wit

Re: rpm problem

2000-09-19 Thread Uncle Meat
On 19-Sep-2000 Giulio Orsero spoke something to the effect: > On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:54:20 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: > >>> XXX.i386.rpm package. It creates only files in BUILD, SPECS and SOURCES >>> directories in /usr/src/redhat/ path. No problem with the original >>> version >>> of the rpm packa

Re: rpm problem

2000-09-19 Thread Luca Capannesi
At 10.01 19/09/00 +0200, you wrote: >On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:54:20 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: > >>> XXX.i386.rpm package. It creates only files in BUILD, SPECS and SOURCES >>> directories in /usr/src/redhat/ path. No problem with the original >>> version >>> of the rpm package in the distribution (Red

Re: rpm problem

2000-09-19 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 15:54:20 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >> XXX.i386.rpm package. It creates only files in BUILD, SPECS and SOURCES >> directories in /usr/src/redhat/ path. No problem with the original >> version >> of the rpm package in the distribution (RedHat Version 6.2). >> Anyone the same probl

RE: rpm problem

2000-09-18 Thread Uncle Meat
On 18-Sep-2000 Luca Capannesi spoke something to the effect: > I've got a problem with rpm --rebuild and --recompile command. > The new version of rpm package (rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm) doesn't build > the > XXX.i386.rpm package. It creates only files in BUILD, SPECS and SOURCES > directories in /

Re: rpm problem

2000-09-18 Thread Nick Hudson
1 AM Subject: rpm problem > I've got a problem with rpm --rebuild and --recompile command. > The new version of rpm package (rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm) doesn't build the > XXX.i386.rpm package. It creates only files in BUILD, SPECS and SOURCES > directories in /usr/src/redhat/

rpm problem

2000-09-18 Thread Luca Capannesi
I've got a problem with rpm --rebuild and --recompile command. The new version of rpm package (rpm-3.0.5-9.6x.i386.rpm) doesn't build the XXX.i386.rpm package. It creates only files in BUILD, SPECS and SOURCES directories in /usr/src/redhat/ path. No problem with the original version of the rpm pa

Re: rpm problem

2000-08-08 Thread Nick Hudson
ok also it says i need libbz2.so.0 file for this ??? iwhat is this in??? thx Nick On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, you wrote: > Ok i installed RPM 4.0 fine with no errors or anything now when i do a > rpm -Uvh it installs fine no problems but when i try to install from > source like rpm --rebuild

Re: rpm problem

2000-08-08 Thread Nick Hudson
Ok i installed RPM 4.0 fine with no errors or anything now when i do a rpm -Uvh it installs fine no problems but when i try to install from source like rpm --rebuild it gives me the help menu and tells me what extentions i should use to install the file... but yet --rebuild is there so

Re: rpm problem

2000-08-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, you wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:47:06PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > : Go get RPM 3.5. This is a bridge between RPM4 and RPM3 type RPM files. > > Problem is, however, that RPM 3.0.5 has some undocumented "features" that > break many SRPMS. > > For example, any man pa

Re: rpm problem

2000-08-08 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 12:47:06PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: : Go get RPM 3.5. This is a bridge between RPM4 and RPM3 type RPM files. Problem is, however, that RPM 3.0.5 has some undocumented "features" that break many SRPMS. For example, any man pages that are installed by the %install section

Re: rpm problem

2000-08-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote: > hey guys and gals, > when i try to install a rpm from the redhat ftp site it gives me this > message : > "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM" > > what does this mean??? it only does this on the rpm packages from the

Re: rpm problem

2000-08-08 Thread Bret Hughes
Nick Hudson wrote: > hey guys and gals, > when i try to install a rpm from the redhat ftp site it gives me this > message : > "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM" > > what does this mean??? it only does this on the rpm packages from the RH ftp no >

rpm problem

2000-08-07 Thread Nick Hudson
hey guys and gals, when i try to install a rpm from the redhat ftp site it gives me this message : "only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM" what does this mean??? it only does this on the rpm packages from the RH ftp no other rpm does this .. Thx

RPM problem

2000-07-19 Thread Volkan Coskun
Hi all, This might be a basic question... I am trying to install a software which has an rpm extension (fcc-5.5.36-1.i586.rpm). I am using RedHat 6.0. When I wanted to run the GNORPM through the file manager to install the software, nothing happened (GNORPM did not start). Then, I typed gnorpm in

RE: RPM problem: only packages with major numbers

2000-07-14 Thread Nitebirdz
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jeff Graves wrote: > Sounds like you need a new version of RPM? I've never heard of this > problem. What version of Redhat are you running? > I agree. As far as I know, Rawhide is using RPM 4.0, which means that the XFree86 package you downloaded is meant to be installed w

RE: RPM problem: only packages with major numbers

2000-07-13 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jeff Graves wrote: > Sounds like you need a new version of RPM? I've never heard of this > problem. What version of Redhat are you running? > Known bug. It's been discussed to death on this list. You need to get the "tarball" version of RPM4 and use IT instead of the RPM. The

RE: RPM problem: only packages with major numbers

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Graves
Sounds like you need a new version of RPM? I've never heard of this problem. What version of Redhat are you running? -Original Message- From: Simons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 6:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RPM problem: only packages with

RPM problem: only packages with major numbers

2000-07-12 Thread Simons
Hello, I get the XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm from rawhide and issue the command: rpm -Fvh XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm to upgrade the XFree86, but it give me the following error message: only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM query of XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm

RPM problem: only packages with major numbers

2000-07-12 Thread Simons
Hello, I get the XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm from rawhide and issue the command: rpm -Fvh XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm to upgrade the XFree86, but it give me the following error message: only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM query of XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm

Re: (gno)rpm problem...

2000-06-22 Thread Bret Hughes
"Burke, Thomas G." wrote: > Hey all, maybe someone out there can explain to me what's going on, here... > > I'm trying to install the new kernel rpm's, and I'm not being very > successful. > > 1) Downloaded kernel-2.6.16-1.i386.rpm and sthe source rpms > 2) ran gnorpm... Said it installed the i3

(gno)rpm problem...

2000-06-22 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Hey all, maybe someone out there can explain to me what's going on, here... I'm trying to install the new kernel rpm's, and I'm not being very successful. 1) Downloaded kernel-2.6.16-1.i386.rpm and sthe source rpms 2) ran gnorpm... Said it installed the i386, but wouldn't install the src 3) che

RPM Problem

1998-06-11 Thread Aaron Walker
I am having a problem with RPM upgrading the ncurses package. I downloaded the ncurses-4.1-12 RPM and attempted to upgrade it with the command: rpm -Uvh ncurses-4.1-12.i386.rpm RPM says: ncurses #unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/termi

Re: MySQL RPM problem

1998-05-09 Thread Robert Goodwin
Dan Cyr wrote: > No clue. > > You might want to give the source a go. > OR > > AHA Most likely this is the problem > RPM files for (RedHat) Linux (Intel and source) > Note: To get MySQL to work with RedHat 5.0 you have to get the newest Perl > and libc from Redhat errata > > http://www.hap

Re: MySQL RPM problem

1998-05-09 Thread Dan Cyr
At 02:21 PM 5/9/98 -0600, Robert Goodwin wrote: >thanks for the info. I was able to uninstall the whole thing ok but >then when I went to reinstall as you suggested it is still hanging up. >this is as far as it gets... it seems to be almost done but just >doesn't give me my prompt back. >--

Re: MySQL RPM problem

1998-05-09 Thread Robert Goodwin
> This should fix you. > > rpm -qil mysql-3.21.26-1.i386.rpm > > Then go and delete all the files, where ever they be. > After that a simple rpm -ivh mysql-3.21.26-1.i386.rpm MIGHT not work, it > might crap out and say it's already installed because of your upgrade > mistake.So rpm -ivh --fo

Re: MySQL RPM problem

1998-05-09 Thread Brian Eith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >I'm trying to install the mysql RPM's that I downloaded from the > >hurricane contribs. I'm having some problems with it though in that it > >keeps hanging on me. I Installed the clients RPM without a problem then > >this is as far as it gets on the main in

Re: MySQL RPM problem

1998-05-09 Thread Dan Cyr
At 10:01 AM 5/9/98 -0600, Robert Goodwin wrote: >Hi there, > >I'm trying to install the mysql RPM's that I downloaded from the >hurricane contribs. I'm having some problems with it though in that it >keeps hanging on me. I Installed the clients RPM without a problem then >this is as far as it ge

MySQL RPM problem

1998-05-09 Thread Robert Goodwin
Hi there, I'm trying to install the mysql RPM's that I downloaded from the hurricane contribs. I'm having some problems with it though in that it keeps hanging on me. I Installed the clients RPM without a problem then this is as far as it gets on the main install before hanging: [root@benway R