>>> 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.
>
> So how do I update grpmi and MandrakeUpdate without having rpm ? hehe :)
>
> Can't seem to find tar.gz files anywhere...
My brutal "fingers crossed" technique (successful on all three "bad grpmi"
boxes so far has to simply use MandrakeUpdate and grab gprmi first, then
quit MandrakeUpdate, then relaunch to update MandrakeUpdate, then quit and
#rpm --rebuilddb and then reboot. Then use MandrakeUpdate to patch the rest
of the system without the rpm 'hang' condition. YMMV.
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