nDiScReEt wrote: > On Sunday 14 July 2002 3:02 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > >>I'm a little confused here. Are you root when you're attempting to run >>these programs, and are you running them from the desktop shortcut/menu >>shortcut, or from the command line? >> >>When I start Mandrake Control Center from the Icon either from the >>desktop or from the menu item I always have to authenticate myself as >>root user. anytime I invoke urpmi it's always on the command line in >>this manner: >> >> urpmi <some-file-name> [enter] >> >>When doing this I am already logged in as root in a console. > > > I try "Mandrake Control Center" from both the GUI menu and from command line > (ie /usr/X11R6/bin/drakconf). In both cases I can get the GUI password prompt > but it will not go any further then that until earlier today. Now my only > problem is getting urpmi to behave correctly. I get errors saying that some > files are missing and that I need to update my database. I do that with the > following command: > > /usr/sbin/urpmi.update -a > or > /usr/sbin/urpmi.update -cf > > This still doesn't change the error message even though it would load the > files but not show in the directory (most of the sometimes ...very > inconsistant but it really depends on the media even though they are all > coming from the same directory) /var/cache/urpmi/rpms. I do all urpmi from > command line. I am always doing urpmi and drakconf functions always as root. >
ok...this sounds suspiciously like something else I've seen recently. when was the last time you did an "rpm --rebuilddb"? I've noticed that lately when rpm/urpmi seems to hang doing a rebuild on the rpm database clears this up. -- daRcmaTTeR ---------- Registered Linux User 182496
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