root cannot use rpm, yum...

François Patte Francois.Patte at math-info.univ-paris5.fr
Mon Aug 16 16:32:33 UTC 2004


Selon Mike Klinke <lsomike at futzin.com>:

> On Monday 16 August 2004 07:00, François Patte wrote:
>
> > If I use the command
> >
> > yum update
> >
> > as a normal user, it works untill I have to be root to perform the
> > operation. If do the same as root yum hangs and I have to kill the
> > process...
> >
> > Who cold give me some information?
> >
>
> How are you getting "root"?  Are you using "su"?  If so try either
> logging in as root at the initial login or use "su -" to be sure you
> have set up root's environment and see if that makes a difference.

I use "su -", but the problem is the same with "su" only

Regards.

--
François Patte

Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde
Université René Descartes - Paris 5
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte





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