On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 22:24, 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? > ---- this is a continual problem with psyche - I'm sure it's in bugzilla somewhere. command shell as root or su - ps aux|grep rpm kill all processes that show up from ps query then rm -fr /var/lib/rpm/__* then rpm --rebuilddb Craig
