Re: AHHHH HELP I cant even sleep at night.........

[tking netstarcomm net (King, Timothy)]

On Sat, 05 Sep 1998, Gary Arel wrote:
>Hi
>This is sooo frustrating I upgraded to 5.1 from 5.0 early yesterday and
>everything went well as far as I could tell EXCEPT when I try to run GLINT
>it doesn't matter where I am trying to get my RPMS either from my CD-ROM or
>another drive (under winblows) the bar that comes up "Scanning.." ALWAYS
>freezes in the exact same spot but different places depending on where I am
>trying to get the RPMS (I hope that made sense but lemme give an example
>
>/mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS  it halts at 75%
>
>my "C:" drive
>/win/redhat/redhat/rpms   halts at 45%
>/win/kd			  """
>/win/rpms			  """
>/win/enlighten		  """
>
>my "D:" drive
>/dos/rpms			  Halts at 10%
>/dos/kd			  """
>
>so what I see is no matter what I try to pull off any drive it always halts
>at the same place no matter what the file is

This is due to a glint bug on the stardard RH 5.1 distribution. The solution
is to get the latest glint from the Redhat site (look in "5.1 errata".)  While
you are there, you should also get the latest version of rpm.

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Tim King, tking netstarcomm net
Knoxville, Tennessee