Synaptic and apt problems...

[Phil Schaffner]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 17:54 -0600, Kim Lux wrote:
> I was updating my fc4 installation with synaptic when I lost my Internet
> connection.  Now I get the error below when I run synaptic.  I rebuilt
> synaptic from the latest source rpm with no change in the symptoms.
> 
> I also get a hung process when I run 'apt-get --reinstall install glibc'
> 
> How do I fix this problem ?

Perhaps download glibc-XXXX.rpm [boot from recovery cd if necessary],
then:

# rpm -Uvh --force [--root=/mnt/sysimage] glibc-XXXX.rpm

Phil