[Mageia-discuss] beta2 woes

Maarten Vanraes alien at rmail.be
Sun Apr 8 07:43:29 CEST 2012


Op zondag 08 april 2012 02:27:33 schreef David W. Hodgins:
> On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:18:27 -0400, Tony Blackwell <tablackwell at bigpond.com> 
wrote:
> > 2. re-running the whole install as new install, keeping everything the
> > same, but choosing grub results in a bootable beta2.  I then select
> > update all sources and allow this to complete.  Then select update your
> > system, it updates glibc and a short list of other things, then
> > terminates silently; I'd expected it would come back with an extended
> > list of packages to update.  Re-running update manually, MCC brings up
> > the 'Please wait' sliding progress bar, then immediately above it "A
> > fatal error occurred: Couldn't open RPM DB () at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.14.2/Rpmdrake/open_db.pm line 74.."
> 
> The lilo bug is known
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5044
> 
> The rpmdrake bug has been fixed since the beta 2 iso was created.
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4918
> 
> Workaround is to install, don't do updates, after first boot use
> urpmi --auto-update to update rpmdrake, or for an already broken database
> ... # rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> # rm -f /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock
> # rm -f /var/lib/rpm/.RPMLOCK
> Then run the urpmi --auto-update.
> 
> Regards, Dave Hodgins

already said the same thing 1.5 hours before :-)


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