sorry i maybe misst youre original post...
but let's do some thing about....
you said that the problem begans after a update
process right...???
have you note that the urpmi had a bug and must be
updated by hand...??? the rpm manager was closing
wrong the data base so it causes the links
desapear....
you must update this pakage by hand... unfortunately i
can't find the one you need maybe some one else can
Cdrack.
--- Langsley T Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> Having gotten no response to my original posting on
> this subject I'm
> left to wonder if I have simply totally messed up my
> current install of
> Mandrake 9.2 with my attempts to run update and
> therefore must simply
> reinstall? Or perhaps my questions were just too
> ignorant of the issues
> involved to be addressable in this forum. If that is
> the case, where can
> I turn? Somehow or other I must get Mandrake running
> properly. It is
> unusable for much of anything but email and web
> surfing at this point.
> Why Evolution and Mozilla are still working I have
> no idea. Obviously
> I'm in need of a lot of help!
>
> For anyone who might have some helpful advice, below
> is the complete
> text of my original post asking for help with this.
>
> Thanks again for all the help and patience.
>
> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 18:58, Langsley T Russell
> wrote:
> > Hi all. I finally managed to update my mandrake
> 9.2 yesterday. I tried
> > deleting the lock file from the /var/lib/urpmi
> file as directed by
> > Derek, but was denied permission. So I thought I
> would change the
> > permissions and then delete the lock file. After
> adding the permission
> > to the /var/lib/urpmi directory I was able to
> download the update files
> > without even deleting the lock file. Should I
> still delete the lock
> > file? It took about 3 hours on my dial up
> connection to download the
> > updates but it went without a hitch, I thought.
> KMail has likewise
> > apparently been obliterated.
> >
> > When I booted up today I found that I no longer
> have the icons for any
> > of the OO.o programs in my kicker/panel. In there
> place are several gear
> > icons leading to nonexistent directories/files.I
> checked the "Office"
> > heading on my main menu and there is no sign of
> OO.o there either. What
> > did I do wrong? What must I do to get my OO.o
> programs back?
> >
> > I also now find that I have 20+ Gzip files
> (actually they are packages) in my /var/lib/urpmi
> > directory. Should I do something with these? Are
> they even supposed to
> > be there?
> >
> > I also now have about 30 text and XML files and
> about 24 directories in
> > my home directory Which weren't there previously.
> Is this expected?
> >
> > Should I remove the added permission
> for/var/lib/urpmi?
> >
> > Also I no longer have any sound.
> >
> > Any and all suggestions will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> LTR }}:{(
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>
>
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