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List:       webmin-l
Subject:    RE: update trouble
From:       "Edmond J. Inomoto" <einomoto () washingtonmills ! com>
Date:       2001-03-30 13:06:49
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> Patrick Erler wrote:
> >
> > hello Jamie!
> >
> > on Thursday, March 29, 2001, 1:31:54 AM, you wrote:
> > JC> Patrick Erler wrote:
> > >> i just don't get my webmin 0.84 updated to 0.85. i tried with the
> > >> webupdate from webmin.com and by downloading the rpm and doing an
> > >> rpm -Uvh webmin*.rpm. in both cases the update process never
> > >> stops and i have some sh and rpm processes running for ever when
> > >> doing an ps -x..
> >
> > JC> What are the processes that are running when the upgrade hangs?
> > JC> The command  pstree -p  will show the ones that are 'under' the RPM
> > JC> process, and thus are likely to be causing the problem.
> > these are the processes wich seem to hang:
> >
> > 18349 pts/7    S      0:19 rpm -Uvh webmin-0.85.rpm
> > 18363 pts/7    S      0:00 /bin/sh var/tmp/rpm-tmp.94891 2
> > 18364 pts/7    S      0:00 /bin/sh var/tmp/rpm-tmp.94891 2
> > 18365 pts/7    S      0:00 rpm -q webmin
> > 18411 ?        S      0:00 pickup -l -t fifo
>
> The setup script in the webmin 0.85 RPM calls the rpm command
> itself, and it
> seems that on your system this is causing RPM to lock up :( The
> solution would
> be to upgrade RPM itself ..
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem with 0.85 ?
>
>  - Jamie


Hi,

I was able to successfully update WebMin 0.84 to 0.85 using WebMin's
internal update feature on all my *nix servers: 2-RH 6.2, 1-Caldera
OpenLinux, 1-OpenBSD 2.8.

-- Edmond Inomoto


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