> I have reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 on my system (formated the partition and
> installed over it), but now I can't seem to install anything with rpm. All
> rpm packages I try to install cause my system to start working intensively,
> the disk(s) work like they never have before and I can't do anything, not
> even kill the rpm process. I left my computer one time when installing an
> rpm (to see if it would "finish"), when I got back 7 hours later the system
> was still working. The only solution seems to reboot the system by pressing
> the reset switch.
I've seen this behaviour on three different 7.2 boxes that I've set up
recently.
After updating grpmi (and MandrakeUpdate) to latest versions, the bug has
completely disappeared.
Always remember to #rpm --rebuilddb after such a crash-out, btw.
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