OK, this one confuses me totally. Doing an urpmi --auto-select, my music (being played through xmms) cut out. I store it on my laptop, mounted over an NFS share as /home/adamw/music . I looked over at the urpmi window and it was seemingly frozen while installing perl. I killed xmms and went on reading mail. Five minutes later, I look across and urpmi has finally got perl installed, and I see this output:
starting installing packages created transaction for installing on / (remove=1, install=0, upgrade=3) removing package gaim-0.64-2mdk.i586 adding package perl-base-5.8.0-29mdk.i586 (id=99, eid=99, update=1, file=/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/perl-base-5.8.0-29mdk.i586.rpm) adding package perl-5.8.0-29mdk.i586 (id=164, eid=164, update=1, file=/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/perl-5.8.0-29mdk.i586.rpm) adding package perl-devel-5.8.0-29mdk.i586 (id=622, eid=622, update=1, file=/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/perl-devel-5.8.0-29mdk.i586.rpm) error: failed to stat /home/adamw/music: Input/output error Preparing... ################################################## 1:perl ################################################## 2:perl-base ################################################## 3:perl-devel ################################################## (when it was frozen, it was at the line before "error: failed to stat /home/adamw/music..."). Looks like urpmi tried to access /home/adamw/music and knocked the connection over (this happens, the laptop's on wireless and the connection is slightly fragile). But why the heck was urpmi trying to do anything at all to /home/adamw/music while upgrading perl? Odd... -- adamw
