-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 02:12:15 +0000 (UTC), Brian Schmidt wrote: > I've run into a couple of problems. A couple of times, while I was doing > an up2date via the RHN GUI, the procedure hung. Even after sitting for > over an hour, it would never regain consciousness. I noticed that some of > the packages that had been downloaded for upgrading installed the new > version, but the old one exists alongside as well. One big problem > package I had was cvs. I now have 2 installed, which is causing problems > with other programs. I've tried multiple times to remove one using rpm > -e, but it just hangs. I've tried the trick of killing rpm, removing all > __db* files, etc. It doesn't help. The next attemp does the same. Today > I tried to up2date some php items. Some went fine, others hung. Now I > have a couple of php-related items (ldap and imap) where I have the same > problem. 2 installed, but I cannot get the other removed. Any ideas on > how to get them removed? Erase them with option --allmatches, e.g.: rpm --erase --allmatches cvs And if that would break dependencies, you need to add --nodeps and re-install the package once. As a work-around for those hangs, make sure you don't interrupt RPM too often in inpatience. killall rpm rm /var/lib/rpm/__* rpm --rebuilddb should fix it for a while. - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+V1mL0iMVcrivHFQRAlu2AJ0dot9GuuCvRRU0MWCVi0Z4NLDQIgCfVtoR xVhSCpvRYr0NAEnXzK3d7Qg= =IL/L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
