rpm on redhat 8 is hoarked

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 12 October 2002 13:17, Marvin P. Dickens wrote:
> Hello to whoever is interested:
>
> I have a few clients who went to redhat r8. Anyway,  3 out of 6 machines
> are hoarked due to rpm failure during removal of packages (Both
> companies were upgrading to the latest cups-foo-whateverdriverstheyuse.
> In each instance, the rpms for the previosuly mentioned packages had to
> be removed before they could install from source tarballs.). The
> machines are located at two different companies and the installations
> were done by their sys admins (Who are competent). I understand from
> both companies that rpm (The binary) will no longer run or function
> (When they run rpm, it locks up).
>

I've had rpm lock up on me while trying to run up2date while su'd to root from 
an ordinanry user. I had to kill off all running rpm processes manually, then 
reboot the machine. I've since taken to running rpm only from the command 
line and not RH's packaging tool. And I'll run up2date only when logged in as 
root proper.

I would not recommend RH 8.0 to *anyone* at this point. It seems quite borken 
to me. I've had to abandon logging in to KDE altogether because nothing works 
properly from there (it's *not* KDE either). KDE apps run better from gnome2 
than from KDE, and that's just not right. KDE functioned swimmingly for me 
while I was running Caldera and I'm still considering uninstalling RH8 and 
installing eW3.1.1 (or Suse 8.0). If it weren't for my borking my own eW3.1 
install to the point where nothing compiles anymore, I'd go back to *that* in 
a heartbeat. 

The *only* thing that RH8.0 does better than other distro's I've tried is 
render fonts. They're beautiful. I just don't think that's gonna keep me 
there. I'll see how quickly they come out with an update release, though. 
Laziness is pervasive...

Regards, 
Tim


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