On Thursday 24 October 2002 04:02, Dušan Đorđević wrote: > Hi all, > > I have problem installing VMware Workstation on RH8. rpm -ivh or rpm-Uvh > doesn't do anything, just stands there :) I saw in archives that there > are some problems with running VMWare, but installation should be > without problems ?
This may not have anything to do with VMware but with rpm. There is a "not easily reproducible" rpm hang problem. From another email message: On Saturday 19 October 2002 15:49, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Positive WORKSFORME bug reports (here, or privately) against the code at > ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/test-4.1 > will expedite the release of an errata for the missing SIGCHLD problem. > > OTOH, negative bug reports are also welcomed, but please try to weed out > the noise from the other causes of rpm-4.1 hangs: > > 1) kill -9 (or other abnormal termination) *will* leave stale > locks on later invocations of rpm. Fix by doing > rpm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > > 2) killing rpm with ^C when progress bar is at 100% *will* leave > unerased headers in the database, and unerased files on the file system. > If rpm is using cpu cycles with progress bar at 100%, be patient, > all package erasures are done at the end of a transaction in rpm-4.1, > so that running package erasures in parallel can be attempted. > Yes, there needs to be better user feedback on erasures, coming soon. > > 3) running multiple rpm installs simultaneously is now possible, but > can/will lead to deadlocks. "Don't do that." is the answer for now. > > Again, the rpm-4.1-9 packages at the URL above address only the missing > SIGCHLD problem. If you have interrupted rpm (as implied by your message), you will need to do the rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* I also suggest you do rpm -K against the package to make sure it is OK. Gene
