[Cialug]mandrake update

[Dan Hockey]

David Champion wrote:

> Dan Hockey wrote:
>
>> I have four boxes runing mdk10.1 power pack ed and they all seem to 
>> have the same problem of not being able to update and yes I've tried 
>> several different(us) mirrors. Is there a reason why all four 
>> computers started having problems at the same time?
>> -dh
>
>
> What package is it failing on? About a week ago they had an issue with 
> the cpio package with a bad dependency on rmt and tar, which has been 
> fixed.
>
> If you do an "urpmi.update -a", then try to update with "urpmi 
> --update --auto-select" it may fix it.
>
> If that doesn't fix it, you should verify that your urpmi mirror is 
> being updated. I usually do this by plugging the url into a browser 
> (you can find the url by peeking at /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg), then 
> compare the latest dates to the security announcement dates.
>
> -dc
>
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I've got one box fix and working now. one box was scrambled so bad its 
now running sarge with kde;) The problem child(my laptop) I thought was 
working until I tried to use the mandrake control center now which seems 
to have gone MIA. I removed mozilla and reinstalled it, which fixed the 
bookmark problem-could this be related some how?
-dh