Results 1 to 10 of 10

Thread: Red hat 8 problem

  1. January 31st, 2003, 07:15 PM #1
    soia
    soia is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2002
    Posts
    107

    Red hat 8 problem

    Hey all.just installed red hat 8, my first linux installation.It told me that there were updates available so i decided to download and install them.The moment it went to download the updates the computer totaly froze.it happened a couple of times.Is it something im doing wrong or is it a red hat problem.

    thanx
    -soia
    Alright take it ease
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  2. January 31st, 2003, 08:15 PM #2
    IchNiSan
    IchNiSan is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2001
    Posts
    461
    Soia,

    When you launch up2date, you can choose to download only a single package update if you want. If you try this does it still hang?

    Also, I believe that there is an update for up2date, maybe if you go to the errata download section of the redhat website, you can download the new version, install it, and then try running the up2date.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  3. January 31st, 2003, 08:37 PM #3
    VictorKaum
    VictorKaum is offline
    Senior since the 3 dot era
    Join Date
    Nov 2001
    Posts
    1,542
    On slow computers the up2date tool (even the more recent version) seems to hang, but it doesn't, it's only very very slow (and a resource hug). I experienced that if you give it time and don't do something else it will continue working. True multitasking
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  4. January 31st, 2003, 08:45 PM #4
    soia
    soia is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2002
    Posts
    107
    This is a 1.2 ghz celeron processor compaq and i left it running overnight. still nothing happened. It happens even if i pick one update just doesnt want to do it. The machine halts.
    Alright take it ease
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  5. January 31st, 2003, 08:59 PM #5
    VictorKaum
    VictorKaum is offline
    Senior since the 3 dot era
    Join Date
    Nov 2001
    Posts
    1,542
    that's not normal. Even on a PII of mine it runs completly updates install everything in a couple of minutes. There's definitly something wrong. Perhaps a fault in the install? or in the connection with redhat?

    There's a known problem with up2date when you installed Python packages. (Bug 80633 - Python/GTK/bonobo install paths altered from 8.0). There's also a known bug in rhnlib related to that issue.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  6. January 31st, 2003, 09:06 PM #6
    soia
    soia is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2002
    Posts
    107
    this is a brand new install of rh8. installed it last night and went to do the updates to no avail is there somewhere else i can get the updates from????
    Alright take it ease
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  7. January 31st, 2003, 09:12 PM #7
    IchNiSan
    IchNiSan is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2001
    Posts
    461
    All of the updates can be found here...
    https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh8-errata.html
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  8. January 31st, 2003, 09:13 PM #8
    VictorKaum
    VictorKaum is offline
    Senior since the 3 dot era
    Join Date
    Nov 2001
    Posts
    1,542
    I guess you can get a lot of the updates by updating your rpm's manually.
    http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ this can help you with that.

    and like pointed out above: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh8-errata.html

    More info about the RedHat up2date tool: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/R...e/up2date.html
    You can try the commandline version of up2date, perhaps that one works?
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  9. January 31st, 2003, 09:17 PM #9
    soia
    soia is offline
    Senior Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2002
    Posts
    107
    cool ill do it that way then.
    Thanx for the help

    -soia
    Alright take it ease
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  10. January 31st, 2003, 10:38 PM #10
    hogfly
    hogfly is offline
    Computer Forensics
    Join Date
    Jul 2001
    Posts
    672
    another option would be to run redcarpet. www.ximian.com which can also be run as a daemon.
    Antionline in a nutshell
    \"You\'re putting the fate of the world in the hands of a bunch of idiots I wouldn\'t trust with a potato gun\"

    Trust your Technolust
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

Forum Rules