I had a similar problem updating some machines. What I have done is to see what packages it says are duplicated. Then kill the synaptic. I then to a rpm -qa | grep packagename then I rpm -e olderpackage I repeat that until there are no longer any duplicates. Its worked on a number of machines. Also, just had the same problem when updating the latest squid. It would install it, and the other packages, but then synaptic would die before it uninstalled. Some machines would install everything with no problems, others would have the error. Hope that helps. On 16 Apr 2004 at 23:31, billg wrote: From: "billg" <billg@xxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 23:31:56 -0400 Subject: Syanptic Goes To Sleep Installing Package Updates Send reply to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe> <mailto:fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=subscribe> > Are there issues with Synaptic 0.47? > > I'm trying to use it to update a fresh FC1 installation. It downloads the > many packages needed. Later, as it starts to install the downloaded > packages, disk activity ends. (I've let it go 30 minutes with no disk > activity and a spinning sandclock) Process manager then reports Synaptic > is sleeping. At this point, I can't kill Synaptic with Process Manager, > which itself requires a Force Quit to close. (After I enter the requested > root password, Process Manager freezes.) I can kill Synaptic from the > command line. On subsequent runs of Synaptic, it displays a very large > error message complaining about duplicate packages. The error message > extends off the top and bottom of the screen, obscuring the Synaptic > menus. At this point, Synaptic does not respond to a "Close" and I have > to kill it manually. > > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu Number of Seti Units Returned: 13,070 Processing time: 27 years, 288 days, 22 hours, 9 minutes (Total Hours: 243,454)
