On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:24:18 -0500, James Jones wrote: > OK...I double clicked on the little red icon with the exclamation > point, and was told that fetchmail, ggv, and gv had updates. Sure, > fire up up2date, I said, and clicked on "run up2date". up2date > actually got through, grabbed the newer versions, started installing > one of them...and hung. up2date sits there, no disk I/O going on, and > no updating the window as other windows hide and/or expose it. > > Any suggestions as to what I should do? It may have made it through > installing fetchmail. How can I make sure my system is in a > reasonable state? Sounds a bit like those infamous RPM lock ups, but that is just a guess. See whether you've got files called /var/lib/rpm/__* If so, kill any running process of "rpm" and delete these files. Then try up2date again.
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