On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 10:15 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 14:23 +0100, mike wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 07:36 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:35:16AM +0100, mike wrote: > > > > When I try to install test2 on my home machine (an amd k6) the install > > > > always exits with a fatal error when it tries to install glibc-common. > > > > > > If you look at the other consoles during this are there errors reported > > > about CD bad blocks ? > > > > > > > will check when I get home, but if this was the case, surely I would get > > a retry prompt, not a fatal error? > > Well, depends on where the failure was and what it was. Show us the > error message when you get a chance? ;) > > -- > Peter > the only messages are on tty1 rpmdb /var/lib/rpm/--db.001:unable to initialise environment lock: Function not implemented on tty5 spurious interrupt on irq7 (had this on successful installs)