On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 12:32, François Patte wrote: > Selon Mike Klinke <lsomike@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > > On Monday 16 August 2004 07:00, François Patte wrote: > > > > > If I use the command > > > > > > yum update > > > > > > as a normal user, it works untill I have to be root to perform the > > > operation. If do the same as root yum hangs and I have to kill the > > > process... > > > > > > Who cold give me some information? > > > > > > > How are you getting "root"? Are you using "su"? If so try either > > logging in as root at the initial login or use "su -" to be sure you > > have set up root's environment and see if that makes a difference. > > I use "su -", but the problem is the same with "su" only > > Regards. > > -- > François Patte > > Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde > Université René Descartes - Paris 5 > UFR de mathématiques et informatique > http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte Paths and permissions are usually the only issues. I know though if there is another "bad" rpm program or script this can cause issues also. I would suggest trying /bin/rpm and /usr/bin/rpm to see if this gives any clues. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
