Hi,
I encountered similar behaviour, my machine would
simply lock when Id try to uninstall a package.
I did a rebuild, and everything's working fine.
So I am going to get myself the new grpmi &
Mandrake-Update.
Thanks.
Santosh.
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>
> I know of two systems that have done this, one mine. "rpm --rebuilddb"
> fixed them. The cause in my case was MandrakeUpdate locking up during
> an install and corrupting the rpm db. I think this was the case in the
> other incident to.
>
> For Mandrake, how about a "rebuild db" button on MandrakeUpdate and a
> test for a corrupt db? - this seems to be a common problem, and also
> another look at MandrakeUpdate itself seems in order.
>
> BillK
>
> Simon Cousins wrote:
> >
> > >>> 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.
> > >>
