On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 17:02:20 -0800, Chris Stankevitz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm concerned about my up2date. A few weeks ago, I had trouble running > up2date due to a checksum mismatch on a package named mozilla-devel. It > appeared that up2date did not run properly (I never received the > "following packages installed successfully" message). Now my > /var/spool/up2date directory is filled with stuff that looks like > temporary files. Additionally, the command "rpm -qa" seems to indicate > that some of the packages listed in /var/spool/up2date were not > installed (for example, "strace" is listed in my spool directory, but is > not reported during an "rpm -qa"). > > Is my up2date okay? mkdir ~/RPMS mv /var/spool/up2date/*.rpm ~/RPMS rm -f /var/spool/up2date/* rpm -ivh --test ~/RPMS/*.rpm Look for errors relating to corrupt files, and delete any that are corrupt. mv ~/RPMS/*.rpm /var/spool/up2date rm -f /var/lib/rpm/rm __db.* rpm --rebuilddb Double check the sources listed in "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources". up2date-nox --list Keith.
