Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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...
Urpmi has problably nothing to do with that, I certifie there are no code inside urpmi to search for mp3 or so ;-) But your laptop may have neen hurt by the big cpu and disk I/O caused by the upgrade of a big package like perl... Francois.
