On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 23:57, John Kennedy wrote: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:28:04 +0800 > Edward <edward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > John Kennedy wrote: > > > > > I have an old Redhat 9.0 box that I haven't gotten around to upgrading to > > > fedora that gives me 'a segmentation' error message when I do > > > rpm -U webmin-1.160-1.noarch.rpm > > > > > > I have tried rpm -i webmin-1.160-1.noarch.rpm as well and this locks up. > > > > > > Could someone please tell me what I'm dealing with here? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Johnny > > > > Try: > > > > rpm -Uvh webmin-1.160-1.noarch.rpm > > > > If it doesn't work, you may have been bitten by the RPM lock file bug > > that plagued RH9 (yes, it is Redhat 9, not 9.0). > > > > I can't remember off-hand how to fix it, it was something like kill all > > RPM instances, remove some files that ended in 'db' and do a rebuild on > > the RPM database. > > > > A google search may bring up the steps required as this was very prevalent. > > > > Regards, > > Ed. > > Hi again Ed. I had not yet tried > rpm -Uvh webmin-1.160-1.noarch.rpm before I emailed my reply. Sorry. > > Tried it and it worked. Thanks. What does the 'vh' add to the mix? > > Johnny > > "man rpm" will list the details of all the options. > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >
