Upgrading Mandrake with urpmi

[N@t5]

Hi,

I've been trying to upgrade from Mandrake 9.1 to 9.2 by using urpmi, but have run into a problem. So far i've added the proper sources then do something such as:

urpmi kernel

It finds the packages and asks about dependecies, etc., but as soon as it tries to download anything i get a long string of errors like

==> fdClose(0x8d8a43 rc fffffffe | FD -1 fp (nil)

and then it says

perl: rpmio_internal.h:447: c2f: Assertion `fd && fd->magic == 0x04463138' failed.

I really have no clue what do now. I was hoping someone here might have tried this process too or might be able to help. Thanks

[CopperTop]

Never used Mandrake myself, but a quick google turned up the following:

I got the same problem a few times, but I can't exactly remember how I
recovered from them.

Each time it happened because I interrupted a long process of upgrades
through urpmi.

I guess this is a problem of little-endian/big-endian mismatch somewhere
because I never had this issue with x86.

Anyway, try to rebuild your rpm database a few times, it might help to
solve the problem:

$ rpm --rebuilddb

Also try to upgrade (by hand) urpmi and its dependencies (perl-URPM,
rpm...), and rebuild the database with the new tools.
The cooker version I run seems to be immune to this problem...

I hope this will help you,
Regards,

--
Brice

[Chris H]

I upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0 by shoving in the distro discs and selecting 'upgrade'.

Seemed a lot easier than using urpmi