You can't (shouldn't) do it that way. Put all your update files into /var/spool/up2date
This is the way I do the updates manually. Maybe someone else has a better way but this has worked for me for several years. 1. determine which kernel rpm you need and get it from the appropriate directory. i386, i686, etc. 2. from the /var/spool/up2date directory, run rpm -Fvh kern*.rpm Make sure you have ONLY the required version of the kenel in there and not both i386 & i686 versions. 3. After the kernel is updated, reboot the machine. 4. go back to the /var/spool/up2date directory and remove the kernel files. 5. update everything else with rpm -Fvh *.rpm An alternative method is to just dump all the update files into the /var/spool/up2date and then run the up2date utility. Red Hat Network from the Gnome menu. Then it will only download the header files which are small. Up2date will see that you already have the rpm's in the up2date directory and it won't try to DL them again. I hope this helps. Mitch Smith -----Original Message----- From: Greg Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Failures on rpm -Fv updates Hi Gang, I grabbed the RH9 updates directory, and am doing a rpm -Fv * There are a few disturbing errors, most notably this one: glibc-2.3.2-27.9 error: %post(glibc-2.3.2-27.9) scriptlet failed, exit status 121 This is actually my second go at it - last time caused my system to be unbootable (init disabled all the runlevels because they were spawning too fast... possibly because none of the executables worked anymore?) Has anybody looked into this? Thanks, -- Greg Bell 858-755-1915 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
