Well, that is interesting... As it turned out, I also ended up which in inconsistent RPM db. I had 20 or 30 packages that RPM says were not installed, yet all the files were there. I ran an 'rpm --rebuilddb' with no change. I was able to reinstall them all and now things are ok, I think.
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:56 PM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: Re: [rhelv5-list] Alternate for /var/cache/yum? Collins, Kevin [Beeline] wrote: > One thing I have discovered - don't make the cache be over NFS. I got > about 90% through my 'yum update' and it dies with a "stale NFS handle" > error. I've done it twice, exactly the same on each server. And then > afterwards, I no longer have yum or rpm installed :) > > Oh. It is supposed to work, a case for BZ I guess. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
