Re: prelink and yum conflict

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Thanks. I'll run/wait-for the crond prelink to run and recheck.

I still have no notion why packages like GConf2, libbonobo, etc.
would start failing.

Any thoughts?

tom


On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:59:01 -0400, Jeff Johnson <n3npq@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tom London wrote:
> 
> >I've been running this system strict/enforcing most of the time
> >(running strict/permissive when the policy is wedged).
> >
> >After 'yum update' a few days ago, after observing the
> >'prelink messages' noted above, lots of stuff started
> >breaking, like gconftool-2, gnome-terminal, bononbo-activation-server,
> >etc.  Each would fail with segmentation faults.
> >
> >These could all be repaired by reinstalling the 'appropriate'
> >package (e.g., GConf2, gnome-terminal, libbonobo, ....) via
> >'rpm -ivh --force yum-cached-package'
> >
> >Following a suggestion from fedora-test-list, I started running
> >'rpm -V' (in permissive mode) on my installed packages. Many of these
> >fail, e.g.:
<<< SNIP >>>
> There are several failure being detected. The '?' means those
> files were unreadable, so md5 check could not be attempted.
> 
> The spew from prelink is there because rpm executes prelink --undo in
> order to verify DSO md5 sums, all that spew is from prelink, not rpm.
> 
> Rerunning the prelink cron job probably makes the spew go away as well.
> 
> >(there are scads of these, picked this one at random.
> >Sorry, the first set of messages not coordinated with second.).
> >
> >I can 'make these go away' by reinstalling via
> >'rpm -ivh --force yum-cached-package', and then
> >'rpm -V' succeeds with no messages.
> >
> >Could yum/rpm/prelink be scribbling?  Or am I chasing
> >shadows?
> >
> >
> 
> Shadows amidst rpm --verify smoke and mirrors, yes ;-)
> 
> 73 de Jeff
> 
> >tom
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 


-- 
Tom London


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