Dustpuppy Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 (edited) I decided to update my 10.1 box straight to 2006. Set the sources to 2006 via easyurpmi and then urpmi --auto select. It got to the 72nd package and found something to do with GLIBC that it didn't like, tried to restart urpmi and then came up with segmentation fault (core dumped). I restarted into command line mode, but anything to do with urpmi (even urpmf) gets the segmentation fault error returned. I can't start X because of a GLIBC error. Help! What do I do? I can't install 2006 straight as I don't have access to the .iso's! Edited October 17, 2005 by Dustpuppy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Yikes!! You should always update urpmi first when doing this sort of thing. So try to update just urpmi. Then try to run the full update again. All of this can be done from the command line. If you want a gui, try to use fvwm or some small window manager that may not have been seriously affected by the partial upgrade. A further idea would be to force an install of urpmi from the disks you do have, and then update urpmi first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted October 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Ah, that's the secret. Urpmi urpmi gives segmentation fault How do I force an install from the discs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 15, 2005 Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Try to use the old command "rpm -i", or I think in this case it would be "rpm --force xxx.xxx.xxx.rpm" Look through the files and identify the urpmi rpm files. If you get a depend problem, keep working backwards until you can begin the install, although "force" should not give you any depends. Also, this may be a bit of a trashed system! There are some others here wo might have some better ideas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted October 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2005 Thanks! I'm getting the feeling that a basic re-install of 10.1 followed by an urpmi update will be the way to go: I think you're right and the current installation is rather trashed. Luckily everything's backed up, so it'll be annoying rather than a disaster. Unless anyone thinks my system can be raised from the dead as it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted October 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2005 Urgh. Urpmi urpmi on a newly installed system gave segmentation fault :( I gave my LE discs to my brother, so I'm currently burning some more as it might work better from that that 10.1. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dustpuppy Posted October 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 I've now installed 2005, run all the updates for that, changed the source, updated urpmi and then did --auto-select. It's currently on package 320 out of 450 and no problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 17, 2005 Report Share Posted October 17, 2005 I updated and had to load 162 packages. I was running rc2, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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