[Gloucs] Re: [OxLUG] Mandrake 9.1 updates

[Biagio Lucini]

I have two hypothesis:

a) supermount is doing funny things with your cdrom and urpmi gets
confused
b) the urpmi database is somehow corrupted

I would suggest you to run urpmi from the command line and check what is
going on. I don't have my Mandrake system at hand now, so I can't check
what I am writing (man urpmi stronlgly recommended for getting the
correct options):

# urpmi.update update_source
# urpmi --media update_source --autoselect

The first command updates the list of available revised packages, the
second will install them using only update_source as a medium.

Good luck,
Biagio




On Sun, 17 Aug 2003, Richard Mellersh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can anyone who is running this package help?
>
> For the past 2 weeks I have had trouble running the Mandrake update via the
> Control Centre, I get the following message:
>
> rpmdrake
> "Please wait, contacting mirror to update pakage information."
>
> error updating medium
> "There was an unrecoverable error while updating package information."
>
> I have tried with and without the CD in the drive as /var/log/messages makes
> mention of this:-
> Aug 17 09:25:42 brock logdrake[6828]: ### Program is starting ###
> Aug 17 09:25:52 brock kernel: cdrom: open failed.
> Aug 17 09:25:52 brock kernel: cdrom: open failed.
> Aug 17 09:26:00 brock CROND[6833]: (mail) CMD (/usr/bin/python -S
> /var/lib/mailman/cron/qrunner)
> Aug 17 09:26:11 brock MandrakeUpdate[6827]: launched command:
> /usr/sbin/urpmi.update update_source
> Aug 17 09:26:15 brock kernel: cdrom: open failed.
> Aug 17 09:26:15 brock kernel: cdrom: open failed.
>
> I don't know what else to try - any ideas?
>
> Richard Mellersh
>
>
>