up2date woes after updating this morning.

Gene C. czar at czarc.net
Mon Oct 27 20:42:55 UTC 2003


On Monday 27 October 2003 14:40, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:29:04PM -0500, Michael R Hatzel Jr wrote:
>
>  > When I run in --nox mode, up2date exits after this message, and when I
>  > run the X version of up2date from the command line, it hangs when the
>  > progress dialogue shows "Fetching Obsoletes List".
>
> I saw the same thing earlier. Blowing away /var/spool/up2date seemed
> to fix it for me.

Actually, you only need to do:

rm -f  /var/spool/up2date/rawhide*

Some things changed and the new version of up2date got confused.
-- 
Gene





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