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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." 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? Thanks, Jim Sabatke -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Lenz, I agree. This smells like kernal to me. (I know about those, I fight fires everytime an update gets made to AIX boxes I'm responsible for, but I digress). The idea of a timing issue is plausable. I have not done anything to overclock my box. It is a standard issue Gateway 2000 Pentium II (300 Mhz). I don't really believe that it is an egcs issue either (from another post) although I thought I would throw that out to see if that was a common thread. The message occurs while the install display is going "#########..." while installing packages. It stops, a red window pops up, gives a free list error (address 8547784) and says to email Redhat. I don't think this is a Redhat issue. Please let me know if there is any other info I can provide. This is really driving me nuts (it's a short trip). Regards, Jim Sabatke Lenz Grimmer wrote:
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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