On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 22:44, lorne wrote: > On Friday 26 September 2003 09:35 pm, lorne wrote: > > I've seen 3 messages about this but no answers. My son's machine no longer > > will load Mandrake 9.1. I get a kernel panic with directory not found. Who > > knows! ?? I decided to re-install. I just stops at "rebuilding rpm > > database". A look around shows that I'm getting: I8253 count too high > > resetting! > > > > So far I've seen questions out on the internet about what is causing it, > > but no answers. I initally figured it must be like a USB chipset or > > something, but I've gone into cmos and disabled all serial, parallel and > > USB ports. Does anybody know what this is and how to get past it? I am dead > > in the water until I figure out what this is. > > Well talking to myself here.... It appears this is a timing chipset and it > looks like it may be related to the IDE controller. ??? I'm not sure yet if I > have a chip failing yet or not. I just changed some cmos settings and it > still hangs in expert mode, and it refuses to do an update. I'm trying a > fresh install and it "appears" to be ging fine so far. ?? Weird!!
Just saw this one. If the re-install works cool. But sounds like what might have been needed was to boot from the rescue cd then choose mount existing partitions. once done cd to /mnt/var/lib/rpm and look for files that look something like __00xxxxxx (not that it is two underlines to start the filename) and remove them all. This will get rid of all of the hosed attempts to rebuild the db and allow you to go again. James > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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