<quote who="bruno.s.delbono@xxxxxxx"> > I've had a problem like this with yum when I installed a copy of Brightmail and Sun Messaging > Server on > the machine and ldconfig path was changed to include those directories "before" /usr/lib. > hai i didnt install any other software yet for the machine; it's just running a vanilla centos 3.4 installation. > 1) ldd the binary and make sure all the correct libs are being used it just gives the following output when i run "ldd /usr/bin/yum" not a dynamic excutable > 2) Run yum under gdb and send us the backtrace how do i run yum under gdb ? and send you the backtrace > 3) As someone pointed, send/post the log from: strace yum update did "strace yum update > /tmp/strace.log" as root but it does not send the output of strace to the logfile. the segmentation fault only occured yesterday night, but when i had rebooted the machine the segmentation fault was no more. Im sorry but im not a programmer by profession.