On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 08:12, Wade Hampton wrote: > I love RedHat 8.0 and have installed it on 2 laptops (updates) > and one desktop (fresh install). However, it's not without its > glitches. I have several questions for the list: > > 1. Man pages have strange characters in them. > > After doing an install of 8.0, man (e.g., man man) > displays the man page with occasional a^ (^ over the a) > symbols and the "-"s are missing. Is this a LOCALE issue? > I do not see this problem on my laptop (RH 7.3 updated to 8.0). > > 2. Can't launch up2date. > > On my laptop, while logged in as a user, I tried to launch up2date. > I got the prompt for the root PW, entered it then nothing happened. > I tried to launch it from an xterm, logged in as root; up2date seems > to hang. From the root login, up2date-nox seemed to hang as well. > > 3. RPM hung for all operations until reboot. > > Yesterday on a desktop, I tried loading mozilla 1.1. The RPM hung. > I killed it. I tried doing queries, installs, --rebuilddb, etc. Each > program > hung. I finally tried the **Windows (C)(R) Microsoft ** solution of > reboot and upon login, rpm worked fine and I could update Mozilla. > > A reply with suggestions/fixes would be most welcomed. -------- all of these issues stem from /var/lib/___db.001 & .002 & .003 getting trashed - I don't know why this happens but apparently it has happened to a number of people in psyche. only 2 things need to be done when this happens... kill any processes attempting to access rpm db's such as updating, installing rpm's, rebuilddb, up2date - etc rm -fr /var/lib/__db.* and then rpm --rebuilddb then your problems with updating Mozilla, up2date, etc. would go away and you wouldn't have had to reboot. Rebooting killed off the processes accessing the db's but it's clearly overkill. Craig
