[plug] weird Mandrake 10 problem

[Marc Wiriadisastra]

I've done a something similar which is remove then re-install and go 
from there.  In regards to corrupt database I switched from yum to 
apt-get which you can find off rpm.find and things like that.

HTH

Marc

Simon Scott wrote:

>Hey all
>
>Ive been having a few issues with cdrecord and mandrake 10. k3b refuses to 
>detect which speeds the drive will run at, so it always switches back to 0x 
>(full speed!) which is a pain.... so I went looking for a newer version of 
>cdrecord, and it now seems that my urpmi database is corrupt....
>
>[root at leela simon]# urpmq --sources cdrecord
>The following packages contain cdrecord:
>cdrecord-cdda2wav
>cdrecord-devel
>
>
>so it cant even find the cdrecord package on the original disks! I then went 
>to try to update the install media to fix it, but now I get (for example, 
>when trying to update disk 2):
>
>examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/synthesis.hdlist.Installation CD 1 
>(x86) (cdrom1).cz]
>mounting /mnt/cdrom
>unable to access medium "Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2)",
>this could happen if you mounted manually the directory when creating the 
>medium.
>
>This is even tho I have the disk in the drive, and ls /mnt/cdrom shows that it 
>is mounted......
>
>Anybody have anything similar to these problems? as an aside,  k3bsetup 
>crashes for me..... which is part of the k3b package. However, there dont 
>appear to be any updates for it.
>
>Lastly, how do I force a reinstall with urpmi?
>
>Thanks
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