Hi Jonathan, On Sunday, November 24, 2002, 10:09 PM, you put forth, in part, about "Tips to avoid full system restart?":
J> The latest problem that I just encountered was when installing an rpm. J> While installing, the rpm program crapped out. Strange. J> So, I went and killed all the rpm process running (I used ps -alh | J> grep rpm), and proceeded to restart the rpm installation. Same thing J> happened. Therefore, I then went and tried to do an rpm query to see J> if it installed at all. The same thing happened (no display, the rpm J> process just froze). Thanks for the above. Did you try a command line install, so you can see the generated errors, instead of using the GUI RPM. rpm -Uvh soandso.. I must confess, I have not used rpm much at all of late, as I let apt-get do just about everything.. J> I even tried then to rebuild the database, to no avail. That was my next question... good. I don't know what RH version you are running, but there could be a compatibility issue here, either from the RH RPM version, and whoever built the RPM. Do not know if it is a standard RH RPM, built by RH, or something you gathered off the net. J> I then restarted X (basically just for the hell of it, not expecting J> that it would magically fix the problem). But, then I restarted the J> machine and when it came back everything was perfect, no rpm problems at J> all. very weird. That would seem to indicate that it is GUI related. Did you try to install the rpm via the command line, or just the GUI rpm? J> I agree with you about people thinking like windows. I've been managing J> Linux servers now for about a year at work and at home, and I've hardly J> ever had to reset them! Linux is truly an amazing operating system! Agreed <g> I call it God's operating system <g> Wife thinks I'm nuts..., but she sure loves her qmail server without getting spammed and without viruses, and how fast she flies around the net with dnscache and tinydns, SAMBA file and print sharing, and a million other things...!! -- Best regards, Gary Why is that when you transport something by car, it's called shipment but when you transport something by ship it's called cargo? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
