I've gotten myself into quite a pickle with todays attempt to update. up2date -u showed these: lynx-2.8.5-7.1.i386.rpm pam-devel-0.75-46.8.0.i386.rpm pam-0.75-46.8.0.i386.rpm shadow-utils-20000902-12.8.i386.rpm I downloaded them since I have up2date set to only download. Had a look, then ran up2date -u -i -k /var/spool/up2date which in my case would just rescan for needed packages then install them from where I downloaded them. Its how I've been doing it for a while now. The installation started ok, with lynx. Ran through the hash siqns lynx ################################## 100 percent And then just stopped, but never returned the prompt. I thought maybe a network drop might cause that, if up2date was still talking to rhn. But no, its something worse. I killed that process and ran `rpm -q lynx' to see if that had gotten installed. Again the process hung. So I guessed it may be related to the `pam' stuff somehow. So tried `rpm -Uvh pam*.rpm'. Again it just hangs. Tailing /var/log/messages gives nothing usefull about this that I can see. I can't run any rpm commands as root or even with sudo without it just hanging. User can run rpm commands fine. I'm reasonably sure its related to a failed install of pam rpms in some way, but can't see anything to do about it. Maybe going to telinit 1 and shuting down everthing shuttable will be a way out. Wondered if anyone else had seen anything weird like this? -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
