[97450] in RedHat Linux List
Re: rpm - Boom!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Carlson)
Tue Nov 3 09:39:11 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 08:37:04 -0600 (CST)
From: Bill Carlson <wcarlson@kinzemfg.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <19981103111217.A13410@adbvdesign.analog.com>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) wrote:
> Bill Carlson writes:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I have this rh4.2 box, I have tried several versions of 5.0 and 5.1 for an
> > upgrade, no luck. I have narrowed it down to the following problem:
> >
> > 16:51:17 wally /mnt/hal2/redhat4.2/RedHat/RPMS#rpm -ih
> > groff-1.10-8.i386.rpm -vvD: counting packages to install
> > D: found 1 packages
> > D: looking for packages to download
> > D: retrieved 0 packages
> > D: finding source and binary packages
> > D: New Header signature
> > D: Signature size: 236
> > D: Signature pad : 4
> > D: sigsize : 240
> > D: Header + Archive: 809841
> > D: expected size : 809841
> > D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages
> > D: opening database mode: 0102
> > D: opening database in //var/lib/rpm/
> > D: dependencies: looking for libm.so.5
> > D: dependencies: looking for libc.so.5
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> >
> >
> > Any ideas on why rpm is seq faulting on this package?
>
> I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to accomplish here... Are you trying
> to update your RHL 4.2 system with RHL 5.x rpms? Unless you use SRPMs and
> rebuild them, it won't work. Another question would be whether you've
> already upgraded your rpm to the latest version - if not, I'd recommend you
> do that first.
>
All I am trying to do is upgrade the box via bootdisk and upgrade.
Currently, the upgrade fails with a SIG 11; however, I *know* the hardware
is good (uptime was at 80 days under load), no changes in hardware, and
the upgrade always fails at the exact same spot (right after package
checks). I noticed rpm itself was seg faulting when querying certain
packages such as groff. I could install/uninstall groff if I used
--nodeps, but until I can find out how to fix the real problem I am stuck
with
4.2.
rpm --rebuilddb has no effect.
rpm at version 2.5.1
Bill Carlson | Opinions expressed are my own
KINZE Manufacturing, Inc. | not my employer's.
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