up2date failed -- further information

[William Hooper]

M.Hockings  said:
> M.Hockings wrote:
>
>> I have just installed FC1 on two machines (one with some difficulty)
>> and it was running OK on both.  I then did the up2date thing selected
>> everything and let it go.  It downloaded all the headers OK but one
>> machine had a failure installing one package (error unpacking) and
>> ended up2date.  Subsequent invocations to up2date indicate that
>> everything is up to date but things are not updated.  For instance
>> gaim was supposed to be updated to .74 but is still at .71.

What do you get when doing an:
$ rpm -qa gaim

>> How do I
>> get up2date to re-check the installed packages and recover correctly
>> from the error.

IIUC, up2date doesn't have a list to re-check.  It uses the rpm database.

> I  have re-installed one of the machines and found that if I update a
> single package it seems to run OK but if I update all off the available
> updated packages then one will fail when unpacking and the entire
> up2date app ends.

Sounds like a network issue when downloading.  Does it come up and
complain about the GPG error?

> Is the only solution simply to re-install both machines and update them
> one package at at time??  Or should I get my RH9 CD's out, install that
> then do an upgrade in order to have FC1 run correctly?

WORKSFORME for both upgrades and clean installs.

-- 
William Hooper