kmack Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 I want to reinstall xfsprogs to see if I can beat an irritating xfs crash that pops up now and then. My questions are: Is it best to use the command: rpm -Fvh <package name> ? -- or -- should I use rpm -Uvh <package name> ? -- and-- Should I also add "--allfiles" option? or is "--replacefiles" a better option for doing the overwrites? I am not real clear after reading the rpm man page. What I want to do is overwrite the current files to take care of a possible corrupt file that I think might be the source of my xfs problem. Or is there a way to use urpmi to do this? Preparing to take a leap into the unknown... :roll: Once again... I breathlessly await your input! :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 i think rpm -Fvh should suffice (but wait for someone to back me up on this ;-) ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 I would use the "replace" switch on rpm. That way it will be sure and reinstall all of it. Urpmi has a switch for this as well, but I'm suffering at work at the moment. As root do a urpmi --help and I think you will find the switch on the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted July 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 Thanks for the input so far! I'm still chewing on this a bit and re-reading the man pages and help files. Eventually, I'll just backup my /home files and bite the bullet and try one of them. Might play it safe and do a --test first though. :lol: Whatz Aru advise? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 If the problem keeps popping up, why not try a cooker version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted July 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 Hmmmm.... hadn't thought of cooker... Not sure I'm ready for that, but might just take the plunge for fun! :shock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kormac Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 If you do try cooker I'd advice to rebuild SRPMS (source rpms) rather than installing the pre-compiled. This should save you installing too many potentially unstable packages this may depend on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmack Posted July 19, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2003 Glad I decided to do a bit more chewing on this and re-reading of the man pages, etc. Originally I did some googling and searched for help with a xfs (as in x FONT SERVER) problem. I didn't even think of the confusion with the XFS filesystem since I never have run that system. Several sources (including the XFree86 site) had references to reinstalling xfsprogs so being a noobish kind of user, I figured that seemed to be the solution that worked for many people so I should do a reinstall of xfsprogs. DUH>>>> Glad I read on! Lesson Learned! Got real wierd when I did a: [root@localhost kelly]# rpm -q xfs package xfs is not installed then a: [root@localhost kelly]# service xfs status xfs (pid 1202) is running... That was my first clue that I did not know what I was doing. (well, maybe not my first clue :wink:) After I did some urpmf & urpmq checking and found out which is which, I am going back to the drawing board and rethink this whole thing. I'll probably make a new post with some specifics of what my xfs (x font server) is doing. But I am going to keep digging on this first. Thanks for all your good input on rpm options for reinstall. You all helped me confirm a couple ways to do reinstalls... that is progress! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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