I am giving Slackware a try, and I am impressed already.

Here is one thing I ran up against yesterday when upgrading to
Slackware-current from Slackware-9 using upgradepkg (at runlevel 1).

During the installation of certain packages (in /gnome only), the
upgradepkg process would go to sleep (permanently), and ps would show only
one process running: scrollkeeper. Here is my advice in light of this
problem, before upgrading uninstall scrollkeeper. Run the upgrade, and
then use installpkg to restore scrollkeeper as the last step.

When scrollkeeper was not running, then the upgrade went very quickly.

--Douglas Mayne

On 2003-09-05,
Douglas Mayne <d.mayne@maps_on.att.net> wrote:

> During the installation of certain packages (in /gnome only), the
> upgradepkg process would go to sleep (permanently), and ps would show only
> one process running: scrollkeeper.

This might be worth reporting to Pat, being that slackware-current is
involved.

--
Mark Hill <mark_usenet@yahoo.co.uk>
The most important design issue... is the fact that Linux is supposed to
be fun... -- Linus Torvalds

Mark Hill wrote:
> On 2003-09-05,
> Douglas Mayne <d.mayne@maps_on.att.net> wrote:
>
>
>>During the installation of certain packages (in /gnome only), the
>>upgradepkg process would go to sleep (permanently), and ps would show only
>>one process running: scrollkeeper.
>
>
> This might be worth reporting to Pat, being that slackware-current is
> involved.
>

I've noticed that same problem updating dropline gnome too. So
scrollkeeper is a problem in general in 9.0.

Douglas Mayne wrote:

> I am giving Slackware a try, and I am impressed already.
>
> Here is one thing I ran up against yesterday when upgrading to
> Slackware-current from Slackware-9 using upgradepkg (at runlevel 1).
>
> During the installation of certain packages (in /gnome only), the
> upgradepkg process would go to sleep (permanently), and ps would show only
> one process running: scrollkeeper. Here is my advice in light of this
> problem, before upgrading uninstall scrollkeeper. Run the upgrade, and
> then use installpkg to restore scrollkeeper as the last step.
>
> When scrollkeeper was not running, then the upgrade went very quickly.
>
> --Douglas Mayne

I had issues upgrading packages using upgradepkg to slackware current.
My advice: if you truly want it upgraded, just uninstall and then reinstall
by building from source. In fact, there's a program called "checkinstall"
in the slackware-9.0/extras directory that's quite nice: you can just do a
../configure and then use checkinstall, which will automatically "make" and
"make install", then create a package for easier removal later.
I'm no expert, and granted I probably did the upgrade to
slackware-current improperly, but I've had great success (thanks,
Slackware!) with building from source, so I recommend it.


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