Subject: Re: RPM hangs removing packages...
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 21:10:49 MST
I had su'd on top of the user account. Note the "#" in the shell prompt.
Maybe logging in as root instead of running a su shell?
-- John
Avinash Gupta wrote:
>John,
>
>You need to run 'yup' as root and also 'rpm' as root. From your output below,
>it doesn't seem you are running these commands as root ...
>
>-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
>
>On Saturday 12 January 2002 08:01, you wrote:
>
>>All,
>>
>>I recently tried to do a yup update and this failed with the following
>>error message:
>>
>>
>>*[john@guanine packages]# yup update
>>Reading RPM database... (100%)
>>Performing dependencies sanity check...
>>
>>Error: Unable to satisfy dependency cpp = 2.95.3-2u for package gcc-g77*
>>
>>
>>This really sucks, and I couldn't figure out a way around it so I
>>figured removing the
>>gcc-g77 package would be the leasat painful route. Problem is that RPM
>>hangs while
>>doing the following:
>>
>>
>>*[john@guanine packages]# rpm -qa | grep g77
>>gcc-g77-2.95.3-2u
>>
>>john@guanine packages]# rpm -e gcc-g77-2.95.3-2u
>>ттттт
>>ттттт
>>*
>>
>>Sooo... I'm stuck. I can't fix the RPM package set to progress and I
>>can't do an update
>>because of this stumbling block. So how do I move forward from here?
>>
>>-- John
>>
-- _________________________________________________________John T. Nelson President | Computation.com Inc. mail: | john@computation.com company: | http://www.computation.com/ journal: | http://www.computation.org/
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