What language(s) did you install on the machine with the strange man page characters?
Up2date was a little slow for me, too, but I simply waited patiently and I was able to update my fetchmail package. Heavy server loading can make it seem to "not launch" or "hang".
Were you the root user when you attempted upgrading Mozilla? You must be root when using rpm.
How did you get the Mozilla packages?
What were the exact RPM incantations you used for Mozilla? For example:
rpm -Fvh mozilla*rpm
You are not really giving much detail, we need more. Next time consider copying the messages from rpm and pasting them into your post.
Thanks
Robert L. Cochran
-----Original Message-----
From: Wade Hampton [mailto:wade.hampton@nsc1.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 11:23 AM
To: psyche-list@redhat.com
Subject: several RH 8.0 questions....
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.
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Wade Hampton
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