Well, it means "hooped" or "messed up" (in Canadian). ;-)
M.
On Thursday 29 March 2001 13:20, kramer SETH wrote:
> what is up with the word hosed? What exactly does it mean?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Laxdal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Urgent: Mandrake Updates hosed?
>
> 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
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Michael O'Henly
TENZO Design
