Package managers gone haywire! yum, apt, rpm: pam is totally borked

[Kam Leo]

On 6/17/07, Claude Jones <claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
> On Sunday June 17 2007 11:22:11 pm Kam Leo wrote:
> > > so pam and pam-devel seem to be turned sideways in the birth canal - they
> > > just segfault no matter how I try to install/update, and
> > >
> > > libtypefree is having growing pains
> > >
> > > anybody see any pattern in this? I have been googling this a lot but
> > > haven't the magic bullet
> > > --
> > > Claude Jones
> > > Brunswick, MD
> >
> > Smart outputs a temporary name resolution error for anything that has
> > to do with download.fedora.redhat.com. Is that what you are observing?
> > If that is the case I'm assuming that the server is down and would
> > recommend using a mirror.
>
> Kam - maybe you were in a hurry. This is not about name resolution errors.
> Using smart, yum, synaptic, or just plain rpm, I'm getting a segfault when I
> try to update pam and pam-devel, or in the case of the GUI based apps,
> they're just freezing, locking up with no error messages - there's no CPU
> activity going on at that point -- there's just a window with no info, or a
> stuck progress bar, or an endless hourglass. If I download the rpms and use
> rpm to try and install pam and pam-devel that's when I get a clear message
> which is a segfault. I tried the --force option as well, but just segfault.
> And removing pam is not an option, because it wants to remove a ton of other
> apps
>
> --
> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, MD
>

I am not getting any such errors on my systems. Have you tried "smart
reinstall pam"?