Re: Xorg corrupt after a failed install from Rawhide (How to recover)

[Jim Cornette <fct-cornette sbcglobal net>]

> Out of curiousity, were there any
> rpm files still in the /var/spool/up2date directory? 
>
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> Yes, but I cleared that area as well.

I guess this is moot now.

> Which rpm was not recognized as such?
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> Not sure what you mean here?

When an rpm file does not download correctly and you try to install the 
file, rpm will usually print out a message that such and such is not an 
rpm or similar. The output from attempting
rpm -Fvh *.rpm
would most likely reveal the damaged or incomplete downloaded rpm file. 
This is an example with a real rpm and a wannabe rpm. Example rpm shows 
this sort of message.

[root cornette-fc3 rpm-test]# rpm -Fvh *.rpm
example.rpm: not an rpm package (or package manifest):
[root cornette-fc3 rpm-test]# ls
example.rpm  HelixPlayer-0.4.0.187-20040615.i586.rpm

Oh well, not an issue now. The directory was cleaned out.

Jim


>

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