yesterday
I downloaded apt-get and synaptic
it conflicted with something called zynaddsubfx
recommended that I " apt-get update && apt-get -f install "
which removed the conflicting zynaddsubfx

all well and good
now when I tried to run synaptic to get the new version of grip
it hung up and I had to " killall -15 synaptic "

this morning I tried to run up2date and it doesn't come up at all

what have I done

I've tried launching up2date from the Icon on the panel
from the menu > system tools > Redhat system network
from the command line with # up2date

nothing happens
no GUI
nothing


can someone tell me what I've done and and how to make it work again

update on the above post
apparently I've broken my rpm commands as well

rpm -Uvh grip-3.0.7-fr1.i386.rpm

just hangs

Terminate all your packaging tools, then run (as "root"):

killall -KILL rpm
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.*
rpm -vv --rebuilddb

Then try again.

I've got it now

seems I had something jumbled up

hadn't rebooted in days

rebooted and all works well now

musta had something buggered pretty bad

synaptic and up2date work now

as well as the rpm command

thanks

Not necessary.

ok so if I had killed the rpm
and removed all the database files from the rpm directory

and then ran

rpm -vv --rebuilddb

all would have been fine?

and after killing the rpm process

would the
" rpm -vv --rebuilddb "
have worked??

I tell you what: it's up to you whether you want to trust me. You can back up /var/lib/rpm and try the commands everytime to see that they don't do any harm. Just avoid type mistakes, please.