I have my little 7" EeePC running on house current. Yesterday evening I ran gnome-packagekit (from the launcher, which I keep on a panel), trying to find things I can remove. Having picked a few and hit Apply, I left it installing things. This morning, ten or eleven hours later, it showed itself stil installing something; and there was motion indicating as much -- the monitor wasn't simply frozen. The thing it claimed to be installing (with the bar graph a little past half) had some long complex name beginning with x -- I think xaw. I let it go another hour or two; nothing seemed to happen. I forced it to quit. From a root tab on gnome-terminal, I told it "yum clean all," which I have always found very fast. This time, instead, it reported "Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit," and put the cursor on the next line, without a prompt -- and there it sits. I want to run yum update before tackling the fight with packagekit again. (My display of that is atrocious; see the thread I started yesterday called "F9 EeePC add/remove trouble") Should I just abort the cleanup with Ctrl-C, and proceed directly to yum update? Would it be useful to try rpm --rebuilddb first?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
