[KLUG Members] RH 7.3, rpm sefaults when installing, upgrading, erasing

[Buist Justin]

Could you wrap of an RPM call that fails with 'strace' and send me the output?

ie:  strace rpm -U filename.rpm 2>&1 > strace.log

That might provide some insight into what's going wrong.

Justin Buist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher David Pruden [mailto:cdpruden@cs.wmich.edu]
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 12:04 PM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: [KLUG Members] RH 7.3, rpm sefaults when installing, 
> upgrading,
> erasing
> 
> 
> I've been having an 'interesting' problem with rpm, in RedHat 7.3.  On
> one particular machine, rpm -qa and pretty much all query 
> commmands work
> just fine, no errors.  rpm -U, -i, -e, etc.  cause a 
> segmentation fault.
> I've tried --rebuilddb, no change.  I've also tried moving the
> /var/lib/rpm directory, and then running --initdb.  That 
> doesn't seem to
> have been what I needed either.  It seems that the database 
> is okay, (as
> the query and such work fine).  -v seems to work well, as well.  
> 
> Any thoughts on what I might do, or am I probably going to end up just
> having to reinstall the machine or something?  Has anyone else had
> anything similar?  I believe that there are only a few non-redhat
> packages installed, the only one I can think of off-hand is possibly
> ldap server...
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
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