I would suspect that you fave forced the install of some of these packages that required dependencies that were unmet. It would be wiser to update your system by running up2date, either from the notification area or from the terminal, previously entering root password. To see what packages can be applied to your system, run up2date and let it fetch the list of avaliable packages. You can then update manually, but with the command "rpm -uvh <package name>", or better yet, install package manager such as Ximian Red Carpet and let it take care of dependencies. The first choice would be, of course, up2date from the Internet. It has never failed me, in three years. On Äet, 2003-07-24 at 15:41, Margaret_Doll wrote: > I have a Dell Precision 350 with a Dell M782 monitor, > ATi Radeon 7000 driver, and a General 3 buttons USB mouse. > > The system arrived with RH 8.0. I upgraded the system to RH 9.0 > and started adding patches. During the patch upgrade > > "Segmentation fault" > > came up. When I then tried various commands such as > "finger", "shutdown", "reboot" and any "rpm" command > I got "Segmentation fault." There were just a few commands that > still worked. > > I shutdown the computer and tried to reboot, but received the > following errors: > > Init Entering runlevel 5: > Init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disable for 5 minutes. > ... 2 > ... 3 > ... 4 > ... 5 > ... 6 > ... x > Init: no more processes left in this runlevel. > > > When I tried to boot from the RH cd to go into "linux rescue", I was > unable to respond to the first screen that asked a question. The > keyboard did not seem connect to the system. This would occur > about 10 out of 11 tries. > > I have been able to boot from the RH cd and re-install the system. > I am now going through the procedure for the third time. The > second clean install to RH 9 was successful but in the middle of > the patch upgrades, the system went into the "Segmentation fault" > state. I had been using medium security on the system allowing > ssh in. > > I have gone through the diagnostic tests which come a cd with > the Dell station. The system passes every test. > > The patches that I was adding I have added to about 15 other > systems without a problem. The freeze up occurred the last time > on the patches > > lv-4.49.4-9.9.1.i386.rpm > LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.i386.rpm > mod_ssl-2.0.40-21.1.i386.rpm mysql-3.23.56-1.9.i386.rpm > mod_ssl-2.0.40-21.3.i386.rpm mysql-devel-3.23.56-1.9.i386.rpm > mutt-1.4.1-1.i386.rpm mysql-server-3.23.56-1.9.i386.rpm > > I use "rpm -Fvh l* L* m*" to upgrade the software. > > The system has not had any long processes on it except the > upgrades and use of mozilla. > > Any ideas as to what is causing the problem? -- Igor Nestorovic University of Belgrade Faculty of Economics http://jung.ekof.bg.ac.yu ICQ# 31079000
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