[Wolves] Synaptic, strange behaviour

[Adam Sweet]

--- Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> Heres one for ya!
> 
> My Synaptic on FC3 is being a naughty boy, it tells
> me there are upgrades 
> available, it will list whats available, it will
> download whats available but 
> then just sits there doing nothing! Its doesn't
> install the upgrades.
> 
> from command line apt-get works fine as a test I
> used Yum, all OK, even 
> up2date works fine.
> 
> I haven't tried rpm -Uhv synaptic.xxxx yet just
> wondered if anyone had any 
> ideas?
> 
> I've not changed any settings although it did go a
> bit flaky the other day.

Unless you updated Synaptic then it should work as
usual (unlike Windows Update ;).

If the machine went flaky make sure it's not that hard
disk problem we were talking about the other day. Read
my blog about hard disk problems. There are 2 posts
from the last week or so.

Read /var/log/messages, dmesg, /var/log/kern.log and
/var/log/boot depending on what your machine has. My
logs produced some worrying output. Have a look at the
sysctl commands I ran just to be sure. The same goes
for Peter Evans if he's listening too. He was on about
disk problems recently.

I'm going away for a few days now so won't be replying
til Sunday evening or so.

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