Re: How do I replace the rpm package

[Alex at Avantel Systems <alex avantel ca>]

On November 17, 2004 12:10 pm, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:34 -0500, Alex at Avantel Systems wrote:
> > I get Segmentation faults whenever I try install a new package.  AFAIK
> > the FAQs say "replace the rpm package" but how do I do that if rpm won't
> > work??
>
> Can you give some more details about your environment and the segfault:

It's a "fairly" vanilla RH 7.2 installation with very few extras added

[root@kingsmere redhat]# uname -a
Linux kingsmere.avantel.ca 2.4.9-34 #1 Sat Jun 1 06:32:14 EDT 2002 i686  
unknown
[root@kingsmere redhat]#

>
> Has rpm ( or a process installing things) been killed at any point?

Only by the segfault - not by me
>
> rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* and repeat the failing operation

Same problem . . 

>
> Are you running in a LDAP/NIS environment?  If so can you install nscd,
> start and retry

nscd ??  Not in LDAP/NIS env.
.
>
> Can you run strace and see where it is failing?

Doesn't mean much to me . . . (attached to Paul only)

>
> Paul

Thanks Paul

Alex Vandenham
Avantel Systems
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