> > > I've read about this previously, but didn't experience this until the > > > latest updates. > > > > > > Now when I'm installing new packages - sometime during the package > > > selection I get the hourglass- then the CPU usage rockets up to 99% on > > > Gkrellm. > > > > I could reproduce this strange problem. I'll try to have a look > > before we go gold if possible :/. Thx! > > See! I'm NOT crazy.. it really DOES do this ;-) > Thanks for taking a look at it. > > V.
Yes, I've had this problem for at least two versions - so bad, in fact, that I've been doing all of my updates from the command line via urpmi. I open Konqueror on my favorite mirror and sort by date, rpm -q for the newest packages to see if I need to update them, and run urpmi for them if necessary. rpmdrake, on the other hand, hangs completely (not every time, but if not on the first package group, soon thereafter) if I use it to install updates. It appears to install the software, but does not return the "All packages were installed successfully" dialog. Running gps or ps -ef shows that grpmi (called by rpmdrake) has zombied. Worse, it won't respond to a hangup signal and can't be killed, except by sending rpmdrake a hangup signal. The package being installed when the hangup occurs *appears* to have gone in successfully, but without confirmation via completion of the rpmdrake process, how can I be certain? "rpm -qa <packagename>" says so, but I doubt that this checks every facet of the new software. What if something is missing from some critical packages? I've checked all the dependencies of rpmdrake and grpmi and made sure that they were updated. Another issue: didn't urpmi used to be much better about ensuring that dependencies were accounted for when updating packages? This seems to be inconsistent. Of course, it wasn't that long ago that I started trusting rpmdrake and urpmi at all. From MDK 7.2 until 9.0, I installed every rpm manually, because of problems - not quite like this, but problems nonetheless. At least now all of the previous versions of packages seem to be removed when new ones are installed! Jay -- What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
