James wrote: > Mark try this (hopefully you can because if you can't... you can't > install it from rpm, but you could build from source.) strace rpm > --rebuilddb This will trace the program stack and in about.... oh the > last 5 lines or so you should see where it is hanging. > > If not a second try might be to open two term windows (if you are in X ) > and as root cd /var/log and do tail -f messages . Then in the second > one run rpm and see if anything kicks out. > > Third is to check /var/log/cron/errors and see if anything exists in the > way of an error message when it tries to run /etc/cron.daily/rpm . It > might clue you in as well. > > James >
Hi James, Thanks for the response. While I was working on this I did a ps on the silly bugger and found the cause of the thing just sitting there. It just couldn't do any more. as soon as I killed all the running processes associated with urpmi and grpm things straightened out. The next real PITA was to get kde301 installed. I finally managed to get it in, but as yet I don't know at what cost. and I DO know that I HATE urpmi. I can't help but wonder why after all this time would it have become such a PITA to install a group of packages like the ones for KDE. It used to be such a non-issue. just collect the packages, place them all in a dir by themselves, check for dependency issues, satisfy them with the needed packages and then run the batch install. Sadly that isn't so any longer. KDE 3.0.1 is friggin gorgeous and so far I haven't seen any trace of the bugs that were present in 3.0. However, I had to specify --nodeps and --force to get it in with rpm -Uvh. And _that_ had to be done twice because the first time it just literally wiped out the old KDE. Meaning it was no longer there at all. Then, on the second time around it must have taken cause I was able to restart X, move to init5 and had the GUI login. And to think when I recover from all this self-inflicted pain I've got to figure out why my buddy Roger's router is being stoooooopid! Where'd I put that damned 8 pound hammer. I need a good smackin around to take the edge off! ;) Mark
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