[ale] Setup & XConfigurator broken in my RedHat system...

Jim Kinney jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Wed Jun 14 20:30:28 EDT 2000


Try "rpm -Va >> rpmtestfile.text"

this will compare _every_ rpm installed with the data in the rpm database
to verify its checksum and if any setup files have been altered since
installation.

JimK

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Benjamin Scherrey wrote:

> Unfortunately that's the problem. I'm having a heckuva time figuring out what's the
> package that's busted (or even if it is a package and not something else). I wish
> rpm had some kind of mechanism to test each file installed from an rpm with a
> checksum for possible corruption. Then *it* could identify potentially what's
> wrong. My lost+found only has two files,  #1098504 and #705250 , and while they are
> 23277 and 34 bytes long respectively, they don't seem to have any content.
> 
>     thanx & later,
> 
>         Ben Scherrey
> 
> Ken N wrote:
> 
> > Well, in this case rpm is your friend, find out what the name of the rpm
> > package is and re-rpm it. I think it is actually called
> > Xconfigurator-someting-xxx.rpm but if you use the rpm -Uvh (package) then
> > it will overwrite the installed package, (You may have to use --force, not
> > sure.) Give that a try.
> >         Also look in the lost and found for you files, see what there...
> 
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