Re: [TCLUG:17953] helix-update and 125meg core

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Ben Luey wrote:
> 
> I ran helix-update to get the latested of helix code on my mandrake 7.0
> install. The install got hung on the update to of helix-code, so I closed
> it and installed the rpm of helix-update that it downloaded. Upgraded
> fine. I then ran the updater again to get the rest and it appeared to
> work. I left it and when I returned I had a blank screen awith the default
> X curosr. No movement. Contrl-Alt-Backspace did nothing, so I did a
> control-alt-del and rebooted. The logs showed the gdm went insane.  So I
> ran helix-update again and my hard drive thrashed for minutes and minutes
> (quite scary), and finally I got contorl of my computers back enough to
> run top and see helix-update going insane but right before I could kill it
> it core dumped a 125meg file. UUmmmmm??

well, you should probably disable gdm for the time being and just log in
through the console ;-)  Other than that, I'd probably try removing all
of the helixcode RPMs, then trying helix-update again.  The command
would probably look like

rpm -e $(rpm -qa|grep helix)

which will erase all RPMs with the word `helix' in them (hopefully).

the $(...) is the equivalent of using backtics (`...` not '...')

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