On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 08:49:47PM -0700, Rashan Jibowu waffled thusly: > I'm trying to start my Apache web server, but I can't > get it to start or restart. After googling the issue, > I found that removing php should allow me to start the > httpd service. Have you looked in /var/log/httpd/error.log to determine _why_ Apache is failing to start? This would be a better solution than merely ripping PHP out of the system. > So I am attempting to remove php but it > has dependencies. When I attempt to remove the > dependencies, I find that it is dependent on PHP > (circular dependence). Naturally php-foo will be dependent on the base php package itself. Try finding which php extensions RPMs are installed and remove the lot in one go via rpm -e <package> <package> ... etc. > Finally, when I try to remove > the packages using the --nodeps option, I get the > following error: > > error: can't create transaction lock on > /var/lib/rpm/__db.000 You are trying to remove the RPMs as a non-root user. Switch to the root user and reissue the rpm -e command. > Can someone help me out? > > Thanks Michael. -- Michael Fleming <mfleming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> "Bother" said the Borg, "We've assimilated Pooh!"
