[KLUG Members] rpm trouble

[Steve Petersen]

Hi Adam, and KLUG, thanks for your help!

> Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the RPM database in RH8 is well
> known to be really unstable and die into seg fault mania at the
> slightest flick of the pony's tail.  But we are talking about VERY old
> software.

Yeah, I'd heard RH8 was bad.  Is it really that old?  I guess there have 
been four new releases since then...!  But I've been playing on FC2 in 
my office and it doesn't seem that different.

> Have you tried installing the ijs libraries?

I didn't know there were such.  But I found these:

gimp-print-4.2.7-2.i386.rpm      gimp-print-lib-4.2.2-2.i686.rpm
gimp-print-ijs-4.2.2-2.i386.rpm  gimp-print-utils-4.2.7-2.i386.rpm

I started with gimp-print-ijs and by trial-and-error slowly traced 
dependencies back.  Of course the last requested file, gimp-print-utils, 
caused a seg fault.  So no joy.

> It doesn't work that way.  gimp-print is a library used by lots of
> things related to printing,  it provides functionality relating to color
> matching, dithering, and various other rasterizer type of things.

Oh.  D'oh.

> Sounds very much like RH8,  your only chance is to run the
> removes/adds/updates with scripts disabled; and you won't like the
> results of that.

I don't know what you mean here; what scripts?  Is 'rpm' a wrapper 
script or something?  Or you mean --nodeps?

> Dumping to core only occurs when requested.  Saves us from the days when
> systems were littered with often very large core files.

Oh.  Yeah that does sound like a feature, especially to someone like me 
for whom the core is meaningless anyway.

> Does rpm --rebuilddb succeed?

It did, yeah... but I don't know what that means.

Thanks again for your help.  At least I'll gain a little understanding 
of my system, if nothing else.  But are there any other ideas out there? 
  Or do I have to commit to the full FC3 revamp in order to get printing 
again?

Thanks,
Steve