> As I said, the problem with the gui does not (for me) preclude using the > command line urpmi.addmedia. It might help to replace the files you
No, it shouldn't. I figured that it might be easier to add the distribution media (actually replace them, based on new content) with the media manager. I found that adding in the distribution media via urpmi.addmedia will work, but it's failing on asking for a disk change, see my other post to the list on this. > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > ? Not relevant to my situation. It was missing directories. It sometimes helps to do an strace if one comes across some sort of an error message - it's usually going to offer a clue as to what files it's trying to access at that point. In my situation, the "urpmi database locked" comes from not being able to access the directory /var/lib/urpmi. I created it manually, and it works. But urpmi should have been able to detect the missing files/directories and rebuild from scratch. It would have had to do this following a new install. > > Did you urpmi.removemedia -a > ? Yes, but not the way I should have -- I ended up just removing the /etc/urpmi files :(. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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