Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2234 mails)

[grimmer@xxxxxxx (Lenz Grimmer)]

Hi,

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Jim Sabatke wrote:

> Just about finished installing 6.2 (from 6.1).  Near the end of the
> install, YaST stopped installing packages.  The first package this
> happened with was "pixmaps".
> 
> An error message was displayed "free list corrupt."

Aiee, IIRC, this is a kernel error message.

> Then I de-selected pixmaps for install.  The next package was "susewm". 
> Guess what?  Same problem.
> 
> A window pops up telling me to look for dependencies.  I don't see
> anything that looks bad.  Anyway, what would "pixmaps" need?  I think
> that is just a set of icons.
> 
> BTW, "kpackage" seems to install RPMs just fine.
> 
> Any ideas?

This is not a YaST bug. The kernel gets messed up somehow. Do you
overclock your machine? What kind of hardware do you have? Have a closer
look at the warnings on console 4.

Bye,
        LenZ


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