On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 16:57, Jeff Sheltren wrote: > Some bad news though - it appears that yum now segfaults whenever I try > to install something located in the base-fedora repo (ie. stuff that yum > got the headers for from the hdlist file). > > This happens with 'yum install abiword', and 'yum install subversion' > (which are both in the base fedora distro and do not have updates). > This does not segfault when installing something that is in the updates > repo, ie. 'yum install vnc'. > > If I clear out all the headers from /var/cache/headers/base-fedora and > then set nocomps=0 in yum.conf, you mean set usecomps=0, right? Otherwise you're still getting the headers from comps. > it goes out and downloads all the > headers, and then these packages are installed just fine (yum does not > segfault). This leads me to believe that somehow the headers are screwy > (maybe missing something?) when they are obtained from the hdlist. To > confirm this, I uninstalled the packages, installed yum version 2.0.5 > (not daily), and tried to do a 'yum install subversion' while using the > headers that were generated from the hdlist file (ie. I left there there > after uninstalling the yum daily). yum 2.0.5 also segfaulted when doing > this install. It worked fine when using the headers located in the > base-fedora repo. > > Let me know if you need any more info. > > -Jeff > > ------------------- > .Dependencies resolved > I will do the following: > [install: subversion 0.32.1-1.i386] > I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the dependencies: > [deps: neon 0.24.3-1.i386] > Is this ok [y/N]: y > Running test transaction: > Test transaction complete, Success! > Segmentation fault odd - at the point where you're segfaulting the headers have already been HEAVILY used. Can you turn up the debug level and give me some more info. I tested this on fc1 and fc2 and it worked fine for installs for both. -sv
