Guest DragonK Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 Hello, I was using urpmi to update my system (MDK 10 Official) from cooker. Everything was ok, but when I tried to use it again to update (after 2 1/2 months), it started reporting some errors (about not finding hosts and such). So I've removed all media and added from easyurpmi main & contrib. Urpmi.update -a works ok now, but when I run urpmi --auto-select -v it says something about installing and not upgrading lots of kernel packages and then it locks. With top I can see urpmi is using CPU power, but I got tired to wait for a result... Any idea why this is happening? I have to mention that the only major change to the computer & mdk was to switch to reiser4. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris z Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 just a guess here, but if you only have contrib & main sources set up it's just not finding anything available to update. if you want to do the --auto-select thing, you need to have sources (IE: Cooker) where there are updated versions of apps. also, the kernel "would install instead of upgrade........." message is a default message. Mandrake/urpmi won't upgrade a kernel, instead it will install a new one beside your old kernel. it's sort of a failsafe so if the new kernel wouldn't boot for some reason, you still have your old one. and, the error about not finding hosts was probably due to a site(s) being unavailable at the time. that happens now & then. when it does, either just change your ftp repository source or try again later. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 to clarify chris's response, the "install not upgrade" is more of an information line than a warning. it's normal to see it. Maybe your RPM database is FUBARed? Try this, as root: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* rpm --rebuilddb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DragonK Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 I was not worried about the "install instead of upgrade message" :D It seems i've solved the problem, but it is one of those "i don't know how i did it" things. I've --force --nodeps an older version of urpmi, then -e it, and then installed 4.5-2 and this seems to work. It's updating glibc :P now. Thanks for the support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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