Ugh. I never upgrade anymore. The process is excrutiatingly slow. It is much faster to just install anew (leaving your /home and, perhaps, /usr/local alone - on their own partitions). I never really lose anything doing it this way and save a ton of time and pain.
It also gives you the simple, convenient time to repartition your system. I usually find that after using the system for a while, my partitioning scheme could use some improvement and tinkering so by reinstalling I am easily able to do so then. Leave /usr/local and naturally, /home, in their own partitions so that upon installing (instead of upgrading) the next major version you choose) you can do so without losing personal or addon stuff like personal docs, games, etc. That isn't what you were asking but there it is...installing new instead of upgrading is the most pain-free, quickest, and least problematic way to go. praedor On Monday 12 November 2001 12:14, you wrote: > On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 09:14, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote: > > Just a shot in the dark, but try: rpm --rebuilddb > > > > It is actually a good command to run after you do a lot of rpm installs > > and/or uninstalls. > > > > Ciao, > > Enrico > > That was the first thing I tried. Sorry that I forgot to mention it. > > After seeing the 'filesystem' thing, I tried to run diskdrake and it > wouldn't run either. It read: > > modprobe: Can't locate module floppy > Segmentation fault. > > In /var/log/messages, I noticed 'kernel BUG at super.c:274!' and > 'invalid operand: 0000 > > It's a pet peeve of mine to just reinstall without finding the cause. I > wonder if a kernel upgrade will do it? > > > On Sunday 11 November 2001 18:29, you wrote: > > > I did the 'upgrade' from 8.0 to 8.1. Now, any RPM command causes a > > > segmentation fault, usually after it says 'D: getting list of mounted > > > filesystems'. Wine also used to work, but it also gives me the > > > segmentation fault error. > > > > > > I did a Google search and found nothing. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Chuck
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