Package managers gone haywire! yum, apt, rpm: pam is totally borked
Claude Jones
claude_jones at levitjames.com
Mon Jun 18 07:05:36 UTC 2007
On Monday June 18 2007 2:45:23 am White RavenOak wrote:
> It's most likely not a PAM problem. Have you tried
> `rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00?` and doing a `rpm --rebuilddb` yet? Does the
> problem always happen when it is going to commit the RPM transaction?
> Try installing some other package, have it ignore the PAM package during
> that. Does the problem occur while you are installing a package using
> just rpm?
>
> Just a few things I can think of off the top of my head, just to help
> find where the problem actually is.
[root at localhost ~]# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db.00
rm: cannot remove `/var/lib/rpm/__db.00': No such file or directory
[root at localhost ~]# rpm --rebuilddb
[root at localhost ~]# yum update
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Update Process
kde 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
kde-testing 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
kde-all 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
kde-testing-all 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 1.9 kB 00:00
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package pam.i386 0:0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7 set to be updated
---> Package pam-devel.i386 0:0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7 set to be updated
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
pam i386 0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7 updates 1.0 M
pam-devel i386 0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7 updates 188 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 2 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 1.2 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating : pam
[1/4]warning: /etc/pam.d/system-auth created as /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew
Updating : pam ######################### [1/4]
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.15;46620a2f is truncated
Updating : pam-devel ######################### [2/4]
Cleanup : pam ######################### [3/4]
Cleanup : pam-devel ######################### [4/4]
Updated: pam.i386 0:0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7 pam-devel.i386 0:0.99.7.1-5.1.fc7
Complete!
********************************************************************
Well, that seemed to help! As you can see, I'm still getting that libfreetype
error.
By the way, there was no /usr/lib/rpm/__db0 BUT there were __db01, __db02,
and __db03
I deleted all three and ran the `rpm --rebuilddb`
--
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD
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