Michael, Thanks for the help. I followed your suggestions for finding and killing the up2date processes and removing the locks in /var/lib/rpm. I thought I would first try to run up2date again. So I went to the console and logged out and logged back in as root; brought up a terminal window and ran 'up2date' from the command line so that I could see any errors that emitted. First rerun I clicked on 'View Advisory' - bad idea, hung the window again and threw and error to the term window: Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":1.0". Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/gui.py", line 954, in showAdvisory advisories = rhnErrata.getAdvisoryInfo(rowData[1]) TypeError: unsubscriptable object
So killed the window and reran up2date again. This time skipped the 'View Advisory', and I again selected everything. The whole thing ran through perfectly. I did get one error thrown to the term window that didn't look too serious: Cannot stat file: /usr/share/gnome/help/glade-2/C/faq.xml : No such file or directory Maybe someone forgot a file in this package. So now I'm going to try a reboot and see what happens. So far so good. Thanks again, Gerry Reno --- Michael Fratoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 29 December 2002 10:04 pm, grenoml wrote: > > I installed RH8 recently on a new machine and just ran up2date for > the > > first time and selected everything for update (including kernel > items). > > It prompted me for the root password and then took a while but all > the > > packages were downloaded and then repackaged and then it said > > 'installing /var/spool/up2date/kernel2.4.18-19.8.0.athlon.rpm' and > the > > little watch came up and that's all she wrote... the install window > > went completely dead (no window refreshes - nothin'). So I looked > in > > /var/log/messages and found this: > > ---------------------- > > Dec 29 19:22:35 tltdev01-lin01 userhelper: pam_timestamp: timestamp > > file `/var/run/sudo/greno/unknown:root' is too old, disallowing > access > > to up2date for UID 500 > > Dec 29 19:31:14 tltdev01-lin01 userhelper: pam_timestamp: timestamp > > file `/var/run/sudo/greno/unknown:root' is too old, disallowing > access > > to up2date for UID 500 > > Dec 29 21:20:57 tltdev01-lin01 sshd(pam_unix)[30904]: session > opened > > for user greno by (uid=500) > > ---------------------- > > > > So I need a little help here. > > > > What state is my system in. I have not rebooted because I'm afraid > it > > might not come back up since it was dealing with a kernel update. > > There are some known issues with rpm hanging, leaving the database in > an > unusable state, see below. > > > What should I do to correct the 'too old' problem in the message > log. > > This is normal. If the timestamp is too old, you are prompted for the > root > password. If it is recent enough, (less than 5 min) access is allowed > > without the password. > > > Can I just kill the install window and rerun up2date again? > > You can, but you'll need to fix your rpm database after you do. > Kill the up2date process. > ps ax | grep up2date > ps ax | grep rpm > (Kill any instances of either) > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* > (that's 2 underscores __db*) > rpm --rebuilddb > # rpm --rebuilddb will take several minutes to finish. > > Try running up2date again. It won't download the packages again, it > will > use the one's in /var/spool/up2date/. > > At this point, you don't need up2date to finish, you can do it from > the > command line. > cd /var/spool/up2date/ > # Install the kernel package. > rpm -ivh kernel-2.4*.rpm > # get the kernel package out of the way.. > mkdir kernel > mv kernel-2.4*.rpm kernel/ > # or delete it, just get it out of the way. > # Freshen the other packages. > rpm -Fvh *.rpm > > Hope that helps, > - -- > - -Michael > > pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt > Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+D8Jtn/07WoAb/SsRArAfAJ963kJujv7vPumwVQIzR4JdcXRzTQCeMCXY > UicccUZkzMumWIopbtb0ZQ0= > =HeLI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list