Last night I did a clean reinstall of 7.2, installed pmfirewall and KDE 2.1,
and then ran MandrakeUpdate to get the security updates. Before running
Update, I did an "rpm --rebuilddb" and "update-menus -v".
I did the updates a few at a time (6-8 packages), then rebuild the RPM
database before continuing. By the time I got to gpm, gnome-media, and gnupg,
the hard disk started thrashing and X locked up. I had to power-down the
system to reboot.
I tried again (after rebuilding the RPM database). This time when I hit those
packages, I got a message from MandrakeUpdate saying that they'd already been
installed -- even though they still showed up as "updates available but not
yet installed".
So I continued on further down the updates list and the same thing happened
again. I rebooted, rebuilt the RPM database, then tried several different
Update mirrors. Same thing in every case.
This morning I completely reinstalled 7.2, pmfirewall, and KDE 2.1, then
again ran MandrakeUpdate. Again, when I reach the "g's" in the update list,
the drive starts thrashing and X freezes up.
Is it possible that one or more corrupt RPMs have been propogated through the
Update mirrors? Or is it more likely something on my system? (I must say that
I've been following this procedure for months with absolutely no problems.)
Thanks.
M.
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
