[3601] in Release_7.7_team
problem with auto update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan A Kane)
Tue Dec 3 13:45:12 2002
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 13:45:06 -0500
From: Jonathan A Kane <jakane@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,
I am having a problem with my private athena linux box. I rarely
log out of my machine so it apparently doesn't update itself very
frequently. I left for 2 weeks (from Nov. 14 to Nov. 28) and logged out
of my machine on Nov. 13. The following day it rebooted itself 11
times. It did this every day while I was gone until the computer
finally crashed really badly (when I came back even the power button
wouldn't work and I had to unplug it to turn it off).
The next time I powered it up it automatically started to auto
update itself. It gave the following message:
Beginning update from 9.0.26 to 9.1.18 at Mon Dec 2 22:41:38 EST 2002
Freshening rpmupdate:
It then hung for a while and finally gave the following message:
Freshening would break dependencies
It also gave the name of a file library that was giving it trouble but
since it began rebooting it flew by too fast for me to write it down. I
assume this auto update error is what made the machine reboot 11 times a
day while I was gone.
I think the rebooting is taking its toll on my machine hardware so I
need to fix this before some serious damage is done. I have never
installed anything with rpm. Its possible a system administrator might
have done so but I don't know.
If anyone has any idea how to fix this problem please let me know. I am
trying to finish my Ph.D. thesis in the next 2 weeks and I don't need
any complications.
Thanks!!
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Jonathan Kane
Ph.D. Candidate, Geophysics
Earth Resources Laboratory, MIT
(617)-253-7890
jakane@mit.edu
