Hi remember me? the newbie struggling with Mandrake upgrade, well, I've moved and after a few interruptions..... so far
At 10:54 PM 28/08/02 +1000, you wrote: >On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 18:55, Russell Davie wrote: > > > > >Actually, run > > > > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status > > > > > > <xfs status> returned: > > usage: xfs [-config config_file] [-port tcp_port] [-droppriv] [-daemon] > > [-nodaemon] [-user user_name] > > > > xfs dead but subsys locked > > so xfs seems to exist, though <status> is not an option? > >Odd. I guess you must have old initscripts... Or perhaps old xfs... > >The locked subsys thing it's talking about is a file >/var/lock/subsys/xfs. Perhaps stop it, delete the file and restart. that had no effect > > > > but running same command in directory returned.... > > ./xfs status > > xfs dead but subsys locked > > > > and <xfs restart> returned.. > > ./xfs restart > > Reloading X Font Server config: [FAILED] > >what about: > > ./xfs stop > ./xfs start both returned: usage: xfs [-config config_file] [-port tcp_port] [-droppriv] [-daemon] > [-nodaemon] [-user user_name] >run urpmi with > >urpmi --wget -v --auto-select kdebase XFree86 libqt2 after doing a urpmi.update then urpmi --wget -v --auto-select kdebase XFree86 libqt2 returned: read synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.planetmirror.cz] no entries relocated in depslist no package named kdebase no package named XFree86 no package named libqt2 >and give me all of its output (might wanna send that off list), there's >got to be an error message I'm not seeing that happens before that. Are >there any proxies or anything that could be standing between it and the >internet? no proxy, just straight connection to internet >I also don't like that /mnt/win_e file. >See what happens when >you remove your source for that file with urpmi.removemedia. this is a mounted disk, or rather a partition that I called win_e, that is used for file storage, its been removed via urpmi.removemedia still no change on urpmi --wget -v --auto-select kdebase XFree86 libqt2 >are you able to use curl to download any other urls? if not, can wget? >are either of them setup? >If so there's the --wget or --curl options to >urpmi. However, you say you were able to run urpmi.update... Did it >actually download stuff or just tell you it was already up-to-date? urpmi.update --wget actually got update from planetmirror and lynx works for net
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