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Re: rpm - Boom!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Tue Nov 3 09:44:12 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 14:44:42 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981103082854.30097A-100000@wally.kinze.com>; from Bill Carlson on Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 08:37:04AM -0600
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Bill Carlson writes:
>
[...]
>
> 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
Oh, I was completely off track, then, sorry. Hm, did you download the
packages yourself or are you upgrading from CD? If download: Could some of
the packages be corrupted? Other than that, I can't think of anything right
now, sorry.
Thomas
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