-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2006-02-07 at 13:09 -0000, Brian Green wrote:
Dunno... but you could check to see if the rpm database is corrupt. I don't remember how and have no time left, so you look up the man page ;-)
Otherwise, something made an automatic update, perhaps.
Carlos, Ouch! But, thanks for the starter ...
Checked the 'rpm database' using 'rpm -V -a' and got 14,409 potentially compromised packages!
Ah, no! It is not that. The option -V verifies the list of installed files from rpms and compares them with the original installed versions: size, date, permissions... even an MD5 sum, and displays discrepancies. It can be used, for example, to do "incremental" backups - in fact, this is what Yast backup does. +++ digression Try this for "fun": rpm --all --verify --nomd5 \ | tee $LISTOFNOTVERIFIEDFILESINRPMS \ | sed -n 's/^S.* \///p;s/^\.......T.* \///p' \ | sort > $LISTOFMODIFIEDILESINRPMS Replace the variables with new filenames; the second one is the list of files to make an incremental rpm_backup - ie, backup every file that was installed from the dvd, but modified. New files are not included. If you want to list new files, I use (watch line wrap) in a script: EXTRAPATHSTOBACKUP="/etc /usr /var /bin /sbin /boot /lib /opt /root /home /www" rpm --all --query --list | sort > $LISTOFALLFILESINRPMS & # List files included in a rpm pckg find $EXTRAPATHSTOBACKUP | sort > $LISTOFFOUNDFILES & # List all files in main directories wait # List files not belonging to an rpm, but existing in one of those directories comm -2 -3 $LISTOFFOUNDFILES $LISTOFALLFILESINRPMS > $LISTOFUNIQUEFILES # All files except those in a rpm ++- end digression. However, if a "--verify" run fails, the database is damaged.
Of these 14,338 where, allegedly, 'missing' packages/dependencies, 19 were configuration files (so they can be ignored ...?), but only (!) 493 had some problem with the Modification Time (but not, apparently, BitTorrent, or it's dependencies, as it didn't appear in the list). None of the packages listed were obvious candidates for possible installation problems even if I discounted as relevant a large number of the entries as they appear to relate to cups and hplip - whilst printing and scanning (on my all-in-one) are working fine.
Dependencies problems? If that's correct, that could break yast. Just one idea... Did you "upgrade" kde? That could be it... The thread is to long to verify if you said you did, but from your first email I think you might. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFD6QOZtTMYHG2NR9URAt1zAKCNs6yS/BsGskeG/66VlizwdTUPwQCeMz7c fAu3EkMPG2fohpX1IbEZL5s= =omu2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----