On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 12:25, Tom Diehl wrote: > On 22 Dec 2002, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > > Agreed!! I have 2 of them that do this. I might have more but I only > > > have 2 of them setup to build rpms on. > > > > > > > this doesn't happen with any of the other pkgs you try to install? > > > > > > No it does not. In fact I just did this with a couple of rpms tonight. > > > > > > > Jeff Johnson mentioned something to me offlist - he said segfaults in > > rpm are either a corrupt pkg hdr or a corrupt rpmdb. > > Ok, but then how to fix?? I have done rpm --rebuilddb on both machines > exhibiting this behaviour. I thought rebuilddb was supposed to fix > database corruption. Besides does the db even get used for unpacking > an srpm?? > > > might be worth trying an rpm -ivh on a new machine. > > More weirdness. I fired up my test machine (8.0) and tried the Uvh and it > works. Now I am really confused. maybe it is time to give up. Problem > is I know this will bite me when I need it to work most. Maybe time to > ask on the rpm list. > > Oh well, Thanks for the help, so, more to the point of this list - did yum work as you expected it? -sv
