Re: OT? Rhas 3.0 rpm quandary

Patrick,

You don't actually need the OpenMotif package - we don't include it as part of our standard redhat 3 build and we install/uninstall/create/destroy Oracle 10g databases on an almost-daily basis.

The other answer might be - is there possibly another package named openmotif? did you try doing an rpm -qa | grep motif and look for any secondary packages that could have confused it? There's also the --rebuild flag - you can use that to repair corrupted rpm databases.

Thanks,
Matt

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On Dec 2, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Boivin, Patrice J wrote:



> I ran into a pl/sql exception problem on the em10g main screen, after 

> over

> two weeks back and forth with Metalink I decided to reinstall 

> everything.

>

> I re-installed rhas 3.0 es on the server, applied package updates.

>

> Applied the oui patch.

>

> Started installing em10g.

>

> The oui is not happy, it warns me about the openmotif package.  It 

> can't

> find the version it is looking for.

>

> It turns out that the version I have on my machine is newer than what 

> em10g

> is looking for.  There are some metalink notes about openmotif 

> versions and

> reports, I don't know if this applies to em10g.

>

> I tell the gui applications add/remove tool to deinstall openmotif, 

> then to

> reinstall it.  It reinstalls the new version instead of the original, 

> older

> version from CD.

>

> I go to a terminal window, use rpm -e to deinstall openmotif, then rpm 

> -q

> openmotif to see if it's gone -- it is gone.

>

> I copy the original openmotif version from cd3 to local disk, then use 

> rpm

> -ivh to install the openmotif (old version).  Rpm says that openmotif 

> (newer

> version number) is already on the machine.  Yet when I do rpm -q it 

> tells me

> openmotif is not installed.

>

> I tried rpm -U; rpm --force; nothing seems to work.

>

> No info on the Red Hat site, they seem to have just copied and pasted

> passages from the rpm.org site.

>

> Has anyone run into this before?  What do you do when rpm is confused?

>

> I suspect there is an entry somewhere that mentions the new version of

> openmotif, but when I de-installed the package that didn't get cleaned.

>

> I am about do search the whole hard disk to find any file that 

> mentions the

> new version number... If that fails I will probably reinstall, I'm 

> getting

> good at that now...

>

> Patrice.

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