usm errors

[Ed_P]

The config file problem continues plus the alien flashplayer file is missing it's LIBS.TXT file.

USM getting to be unreliable.

[Ed_P]

If I stop and exit USM after the config file hang up and restart it and select Update All it updates the next database and hangs again. So I repeat the process until all databases are updated.

Is the config file hangup due to an error in one of the /etc/usm .conf files and can someone tell me how to fix it?

But the alien 616 flashplayer module is downloadable now.

[Jack]

I just updated USM and downloaded new alien flashplayer.

[Ed_P]

Tried updating USM in terminal mode, same lock up on the config file. Couldn't get out of it so closed terminal and reopened it.

Retried and got this:

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# set -x
root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -U all
+ usm -U all

 Usm is already active. 

If this information is not correct, you can remove the following file and rerun the script:
/var/lock/usm

root@porteus:/home/guest# ls /var/lock/
+ /bin/ls -F -b -T 0 --color=auto /var/lock/
lmt-invoc.lock  lmt-req.lock  sane/  subsys/
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

[Ed_P]

Should I resort to this to fix the problems?

http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 697#p24697

[Ed_P]

This help?

Running USM GUI.

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usm -u all
sh-4.2# usm -u all
alien was updated 372 seconds ago. Skipping.
 Starting salix database update 
awk: fatal: cannot open file `/tmp/usm.OPcN0g/vercheck.txt' for reading (No such file or directory)
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: OPTIFEST.gz  DONE
 salix  database updated. 

Updating config file

While USM still attempting to update the config file:

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guest@porteus:~$ ls /tmp/
qtsingleapp-qlippe-2dfb-3e8=          spacefm.tmp/  usm.OPcN0g/
qtsingleapp-qlippe-2dfb-3e8-lockfile  usm/
guest@porteus:~$ ls /tmp/usm*
/tmp/usm:
/bin/ls: cannot open directory /tmp/usm.OPcN0g: Permission denied
guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# ls /tmp/usm*
/tmp/usm:

/tmp/usm.OPcN0g:
about.tmp  help-pkgtools.tmp  sbo-categories.tmp  searchType  welcome
filelist   isonline           sbocategs           term1.tmp   welcome.bak
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

Any clue?

[brokenman]

It's hard to know what is going on here. Perhaps a permissions problem. I would remove the USM files and install fresh. Try in fresh mode to see if it works.

[Ed_P]

Thanks for the direction brokenman.

I tried USM GUI Updates in AF mode and they all worked. I also checked for white files in my save.dat file and found these:

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/mnt/loop

You can unmount it by typing uloop

Here is a list of the files:
etc  home  opt	root  usr  var

find /mnt/loop -name .wh.*
/mnt/loop/usr/lib64/.wh.libapm.so.1
/mnt/loop/usr/share/icons/Faenza/apps/48/.wh.spacefm.png
/mnt/loop/var/usm/slackonly/.wh.PACKAGES.TXT
/mnt/loop/var/usm/slackonly/.wh.OPTIFEST
/mnt/loop/var/usm/slackonly/.wh.LIBS.TXT

which I removed.

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# rm /mnt/loop/var/usm/slackonly/.wh.*
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

Rebooted to my normal mode and the USM update config file hang continued so I ran your script from http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 697#p24697 and it ran to completion successfully. I will try a USM GUI Update tomorrow to confirm things work again.

Thanks again.

[Ed_P]

Problem solved.

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sh-4.2# usm -u all
 Starting alien database update 
Downloading: vercheck.txt  DONE
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifest
 alien  database updated. 

Updating config file

 Starting salix database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: OPTIFEST.gz  DONE
 salix  database updated. 

 Starting slacky database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE
File verification was good.
Optimizing manifest
 slacky  database updated. 

 Starting ponce database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
 :
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And while I am happy to finally get this resolved it's frustrating trying to figure out what I did that caused the problem. Solving problems is great but knowing how to prevent them from happening again is even better.

Interesting to see that the config file update only happens after the first database update and not all of them.

Thanks brokenman.

[Ed_P]

A new problem.

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 salix  database updated. 

 Starting slacky database update 
Downloading: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz  DONE
Downloading: MANIFEST.bz2  DONE
Downloading: PACKAGES.TXT.gz  DONE
Downloading: LIBS.TXT.gz  DONE

gzip: /var/usm/slacky/CHECKSUMS.md5.gz: unexpected end of file
          

==============================================================================
WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!        WARNING!
==============================================================================
One or more errors occurred while usm was running:                       
 
FATAL ERROR!
usm update_database 270
Could not decompress: CHECKSUMS.md5.gz
 
============================================================================== 


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