Re: yum/rpm triggers "segment violation"

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 23:12 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:03:41 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:06 -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
> > > Hi. 
> > > 
> > > On friday I've installed a fedora9(i386). After "yum update" and
> > > rebooting, both yum and rpm commands show "segment violation", only "rpm
> > > --usage" works.
> > > 
> > What does:"only rpm usage works" mean?
> 
> Exactly what is written above. Running "rpm --usage" works, other
> commands cause a segfault.
> 
That is fine but on my F9 machine man rpm shows no --usage option.
So I am confused.
> 
>   sudo debuginfo-install -y rpm
> 
> Then capture a backtrace?
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
> 
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