At 08:14 PM 10/1/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I have seen two things cause that sort of issue.  One, the db for the
>RPM manager is hosed.  There is a fix for that on redhat.com.  It
>happened to me a couple of years ago, but I cannot remember the name
>of the widget, or the keyword.  I think you could see the error if
>you tried to examine the rpm instead of install it.
>
>The other I solved by recompiling the kernel, but that was in 6.2,
>6.1 was a buggy rascal anyway.

I may try a recompile.

>I've got 6.2 the full install if you want it.  Although I could
>probably find 7.0 more easily.

The RH6.1 install under vmware reproduces a client's install, but thanks, I 
appreciate it.

Regards, Dustin



>Doug
>
>
>--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am running Red Hat 6.1 under vmware 3.1.1. For some reason Red
> > Hat isn't
> > detecting the architecture properly:
> >
> > # cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > processor       : 0
> > vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family      : ?
> > model           : 2
> > model name      : 00/02
> > stepping        : 4
> > cpu MHz         : 1595.592822
> > cache size      : 0 KB
> > fdiv_bug        : no
> > hlt_bug         : no
> > sep_bug         : no
> > f00f_bug        : no
> > coma_bug        : no
> > fpu             : yes
> > fpu_exception   : yes
> > cpuid level     : 2
> > wp              : yes
> > flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge
> > mca cmov
> > pat pse36 19 21 22 mmx osfxsr kni 26 27 28 29
> > bogomips        : 1042.02
> >
> > This is causing a problem:
> >
> > # uname -pm
> > i?86 unknown
> >
> > The problem here is that I can't seem to install rpms:
> >
> > # rpm -Uhv ravcore-8.9.0-6.i386.rpm
> > package ravcore-8.9.0-6 is for a different architecture
> >
> > Is there a vmware solution, a Red Hat solution, or something else
> > that can
> > be done? I haven't seen this problem before.
> >
> > Regards, Dustin
> >
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> > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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