On Tue Mar 27, 2001 at 07:09:27AM -0500, Anton J Aylward, CISSP wrote:
I've not seen this behaviour in rpmdrake... I also assume you're using
7.1 or 7.2? Your best bet would be to ask on the expert mailing list
(cc'd) to see if others have had this problem. This should not be
related to the problems Larry is having with MandrakeUpdate.
> I have a sort-of similar problem with rpmdrake.
> I've rebuilt /etc/urpmi and /var/lib/urpmi
> but I still have the problem.
>
> It manifests itself like this.
> I bring up urpmi and select a package to load from CD.
> Click on "Do Install". The slider bar comes up and shuffles.
> Then one of two things happens. It either goes straight to
> state C as described below OR it appears to go through the process
> of installing the pack in so far as it offers the dialog of what
> has to be loaded and the other things that are necessary and asks
> for confirmation. On clicking OK, the slider bar shuffles some more.
> It then enters either state A or state B
> In state A it asks for the appropriate CD but the process fails
> install.
> In state B it comes up with an error.
> In either case, the window then disappear and reappears and it goes to
> state C.
> In state C, any selection followed by "do install" causes the slider
> bar snuffle, the disappearance of the window and its re-appearance
> with rpmdrake in state C.
>
> I'm not sure how much there is in common between rpmdrake and update
> apart from rpm.
>
> I have
>
> rpmtools-1.2-12mdk
> urpmi-1.3-11mdk
> gurpmi-0.8-1mdk
> grpmi-8.0-2mdk
> rpmdrake-1.1-15mdk
> rpm-3.0.5-27mdk
> glibc-2.1.3-18mdk
>
> I see nothing in syslog about any of these.
>
> Is this related or is a separate thread of problem?
>
> /a
>
>
>
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