I also trashed one of my three RH9 systems while updating glibc. I don't know what happened exactly but I ended up using Knoppix on that system for a couple of weeks while I waited for Fedora to be released. --Maurice On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 08:47:36PM +0300, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote: > I often heard word "smart" about up2date. The example from reality: In > RH9 up2date downloaded new packages and offer KDE user to update system. > User answers - yes. After update system can't work and can't boot. I > don't know exactly what happened, but up2date tried to update glibc and > hanged on this - and this is normal because libc is used everywhere. Why > up2date is "smart" if it is so stupid to update glibc while KDE and a > lot of other applications are running?