[Wylug-help] Mandrake has seriously screwed up just by doing media updates

[Anne Wilson]

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On Friday 14 Jan 2005 18:40, C.Mackins at Bradford.ac.uk wrote:
> Mandrake 10.1
>
> Wanted to look at security updates.  First I opted to update my media from
> the Mandrakelinux Control Centre.
>
> I updated media - bt ran into terrible issues thereafter.  If I call
> correctly, I had a system freeze.  So, I logged out/restarted my PC.
>
> I thought it odd that after logging back in, I was greeted by the Mandrake
> Welcome screen (I'd turned it off previously).  Then I noticed that my
> system was screwed-up - a number of apps were 'lost' >
> Firefox1/Thunderbird/and the entire StarOffice7, as well as all my
> bookmarking in Konqueror browser.
>
> Worse still, all my own directories and all content (i.e. all my work) have
> also just 'disappeared'.
>
> On opening a console instead of  the line being[chris at localhost]$ all I now
> have is:
>
> bash-2.05b$
>
> I filed a report with bugzilla - but this might take an age for a response
> - any suggestions?  On mandrake 9.2 there was a bug with the updates which
> lost a lot of desktop icons, this was corrected with a comamnd line
> instruction.
>
> I'm rather desparate as there was some unbacked work - yes, stupid I know,
> but I didn't realise that doing an update would cause me so much concern -
> has Mandrake always had update issues?
>
There have been times when people have tried to update from a mirror that was,
apparently, mid-update itself - shouldn't happen, but apparently it sometimes
has done.  I guess the first thing to do is to get your update databases
sorted out, with

urpmi.update -a

Then it should be possible to

 urpmi --update --auto-select

and get all your packages back into working order - fingers crossed <g>

Anne
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