At 06:15 PM 5/30/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote:
>On Wednesday 30 May 2001 08:00, Stephen Lawrence Jr. wrote:
> > I have noticed that my rpmdrake tends to lose CDROM 2 from the list.
> >
> > Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> > > this is really odd. rpmdrake has suddenly developed amnesia about
> > > my install cdroms. i look at the list of packages available, and
> > > select one. i click on 'install/remove'. it tells me to insert
> > > the first cdrom (or the second, depending on the package). i do.
> > > i clock the ok bar. it ejects the CD and says "try again". is
> > > there some kind of DB inconsistency issue here?
>
>
>Try this
>
>1. Remove ALL sources from Software manager
>
>2. rpm --rebuilddb
>
>3. Give software manager some sources again.
>
>If this cures the problem, then see if you can cause it again, but this time
>take notes <g>. There does appear to be a bug in this code and the symptoms
>are really confusing. (And it sure doesn't help when everyone here knows
>exactly how to use the software--it is some sort of error-recovery that must
>not be happening as anticipated, and we can't seem to reproduce it :-/
okie dokie. i'll try this when i get home. thx!
