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

[C.Mackins at Bradford.ac.uk]

Quoting cmackins at bradford.ac.uk:

> Quoting Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>:
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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
> > - --
>
> Thanks for this Anne.
>
> I tried what you said but it didn't work.  So, I removed all my media sources
> in
> the MCC, went back to easy urpmi and re selected all my mirrors, then
> followed
> the commands given in your reply.
>
> When It came to
>
> >  urpmi --update --auto-select
>
> it recognised the need to install 3 packages, however the installation failed
> as
> some files were missing, and that:
>
> "You may want to update your urpmi database
> RL returned error: 404
> ...retrieving failed: curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404"
>
> But hadn't I already updated the database when I  reselected my mirrors after
> removing them in the MCC?  Or, do I need to remove my mirror sources again
> and
> select from elsewhere, or is there a command line instruction I can use to
> update the database - I've tried urpmi urpmi, looked at the #man page, and
> also
> an faq on the MUB - but being told to update my database at this stage has
> confused me.
>
>
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