On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:11:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 15:18 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> Should I just abort the cleanup with Ctrl-C, and proceed >> directly to yum update? Would it be useful to try rpm --rebuilddb >> first?? > > Try it. If it works, fine. If not, uou may have hit the notorious > "hanging rpm" problem. If so, [...] > Once that's done, do: > > # rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.* > > and try again. I did all of thet, and had to remove three __db files and an empty one. Many thanks! I'd never've managed all that. > (Personally I prefer to use "yum update" from the command line so I can > see what's going on. PackageKit is too "user-friendly" for my taste). I prefer yum when I know the names of the things I want to add or remove. For clearing out what to me is cruft (including games, chat, and telephone stuff, none of which I run) I used to do pirut -- twice, once by class, and again alphabetically. There are scads of things I recognize, when I see their names, as wanted or unwanted, but can't put a name to; nor can I tell how many there are. I think, in time, PackageKit will become an improvement on pirut; but it isn't yet, for me. It's better than nothing, by a long chalk; but while it's developing and getting *more* user-friendly (including by letting me size its window!), I wish I could get pirut back, just to get the job done and get it over with. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
