I am using RH9 and of course I got tired of the whole package dependency thing so I installed apt-get (the one for RH 9 on freshrpms.net) and then installed synaptic. It has worrked very well untill just now. I start it up usually from the terminal and no error messages it just freezes on me. I have to open another terminal type ps -aux find the PID of synaptic and kill it, it wont kill with the basic kill 9877(whatever the pid is) i have to do a hard kill -9 9877(whatever the pid is). not really sure what to do to correct the problem. I have tried rpm -e synaptic and that just freezes on me to (when I wait for about 10 mins. I consider it frozen). It's no big problem, just when something does not work correctly for me it ticks me off. I have not really made any changes in any of my configuration, if you have any tips on what I can do please let me know. Thats what I love most about Linux, people willing to help each other. Its nothing vital so if you don't know its ok. Thanks.
*Update- Now I notice it is not just synaptic, anything I try to do with RPM's fails (freezes) the basic rpm -i filename as root seems to always freeze on me too. this is not good... please help.
[ June 19, 2003: Message edited by: blackphiber ]
*update 2:
http://rpm.redhat.com/hintskinks/repairdb/ I am currently trying to repair the database (I don't even know if it is corrupt but you never know) took me some time to find that. I hope it works, I will post later if I need more help. thanks
*update 3: yes luckily it did work, thanks anyways, you can put this in the bin
[ June 19, 2003: Message edited by: blackphiber ]
[ June 19, 2003: Message edited by: blackphiber ]
