On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 00:08, Rob wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 23:59, Leighton Turner wrote: > > Hi > > > > Im running redhat 8.0 and was trying to change kppp so it didn't need the root > > password to run for users, however this didn't work and instead made it worse. > > I decided to uninstall the kppp rpm but the process crashed half way through. > > Now when I try to find all the rpm's on the system the progress bar crashes in > > an analogous posistion to where the kppp header would have been. So im left in > > the middle with not being able to delete it fully and not being able to > > reinstall, and with no internet. Ive tried using command similar to those in > > "sheer" for removing the rpm but they seem to do nothing. > > > > please reply in laymans english :) > > Ouch! No Internet! You could try doing a file system check using fsck on > the root partition to make sure the filesystem hasn't been corrupted. > > Have you considered an upgrade to RH9? I upgraded to 9 over top of my, > heavily modified (read I messed with it), RH8.0 with no problems. I > haven't looked back.
forgive me for typos for I have just come home from a party half drunk, and touch typing whilst drunk is not fun (even with a spell check). I've had some problems with RH9 particularly with compatibility, eg wine doesn't seem to run as well and some other odds and ends needed re-setting up, if you have all but the current problem working fine I don't recommend re-installing it at least for say another couple of months when all current programs are compatable and stuff :) Although RH9 was the _first_ RedHat distro to successfully get my sound working so kudos to the developers on that. If it's an rpm and iirc if you type rpm -f stuff where stuff is what you are trying to install it should force it to install on what ever's already there... if it's not -f it's some other flag. Good luck getting it going, on the whole I've found RH resonably good, in fact I'm using it now. Good nite to all, pity me for my hangover tomorrow :S -- sincerely Slosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
