On Thursday 29 March 2001 10:11, Michael O'Henly wrote:
> 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.
I had a similar problem a few months ago when I initially installed 7.2,
except I was being selective as to which packages I wanted to install. If I
recall correctly this resulted in my system not booting up properly and
X-Windows not being able to startup.
Since then I've obviously re-installed my system and followed the general
rule that I'll apply all updates listed in the order that they were added to
the server I'm connected to.
This requires a little more time and effort since ideally you should find a
server with all the intermediary updates (ie all the versions of cups that
have been released since the 7.2 release) and create a list is order of when
the files were uploaded to the server. Then go through and apply the updates
on a sort of daily basis (ie all updates added Nov 3, followed by all updates
added Nov 10, and so on)
I have not had a problem applying any of the upgrades this way since you
should keep in mind that the updates were created in a certain order so maybe
they should be applied in the same order.
Also remember to quit and restart Mandrake Update after you update it (the
update appeared Jan. 3 on my list), so that later updates are applied with
the correct version of the tool.
Erik
