Hi This looks like a job for Superman aka the command line. YaST and its ilk are OK for routine jobs, but when something goes awry, there is no substitute for the command line. First check that /var/lib/rpm/packages exists. If not, create an empty file with 'touch /var/lib/rpm/packages' then try 'rpm -vv --rebuilddb | tee results'. This will show what is happening on the screen and simultaneously write it to the file 'results'. We can then see what is going on. Hope this helps Basil Fowler On Sunday 01 Sep 2002 11:04, black6host wrote:
I'm using yast2 software update through the control center. That forces you to log in as super user to do an update. I've also tried it logged in directly as root, same message... Even if I'm just trying to install a how-to it wants to load bash, perl, nvidia, arts, etc etc. All that stuff
is
already installed and has been running fine.... I've restored from a backup but it seems the problem predates my backups.....
Fleet
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