wobo during the install you can chose to have MDK check for bad sectors... probably a good idea in this case.
James On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 15:08, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 14:15 -0800, Todd Lyons wrote: > > Before you go through all that, do a few things: > > > > 1) ps -ax | grep rpm | grep -v grep > > Do any rpm processes show up? Do they have status D? If so, you > > might have a cron job hanging. > > It was direct after a fresh install, say 10 seconds after > pre-installation reboot. I realized I had forgotten to install a > package I need for mail/news and configuring mail is always the first > thing I do after installation even before I startx for the first time. > > > 2) rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* > > rpm --rebuilddb > > Did that after rpm -ivh foo.bar.rpm gave me the error message. > > I really deleted the 2 files __001 and __002 (I don't remember if that > was .db or else) and then thought I could rebuild the db. > > Thanks for your help Todd but I had 2 brave Mandrakians by my side who > tried to help me, in vain. > > > other gentleman start posting hardware specs. > > I'll buy a second harddisk tomorrow and use it as backup device every > day. Maybe the harddisk has some quirks. > > It happened straight after a fresh plain vanilla installation using > ext3 as filesystem for all partitions. So one would assume the mistake > happened during installation. But /var/log/messages did not show > anything special during bootup. > > wobo > -- > If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above > ask your parents or an adult to help you. > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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