-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 15:40:02 -0500, Justin F. Kuo wrote: > >> [root@mango temp]# rpm -qa | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt > >> [root@mango temp]# less rpm-Va.txt > >> rpm -V glibc-2.2.93-5 > >> rpm -V gdbm-1.8.0-18 > >> rpm -V libacl-2.0.11-2 > >> rpm -V linc-0.5.2-2 > >> xargs: rpm: terminated by signal 11 > > > >According to your logs, you had a kernel panic with 2.4.18-14 on > >January 5th and another one 20 minutes later. Any particular reason > >for that? > > That may have been the time I thought the Linux box was frozen. It may > have been running or completing up2date. You misunderstood me. Kernel panic and a frozen box are unnormal behaviour. A kernel panic should not happen at all and certainly not when running up2date. If up2date stalls due to a problem in RPM 4.1, that is something else. > >I suspect your RAM chips may be bad or your system unstable. That > >would explain the kernel panic and signal 11 upon running rpm, > >unless RPM itself is damaged. You might want to try memtest86 > >from Google. > > The memtest86 is a very nice routine to have my toolbox. I copied it > to a bootable CD and ran it for several hours (14 passes) on my Linux > box. There were no memory errors found. Which can still mean you have a hardware stability problem. memtest86 is not perfect. It is not a substitute for a stress-test. > Since my system was a mess, largely due to my inexperience with Linux, > I re-installed the entire Red Hat 8.0 system. I will continue to > monitor my system for disk errors any unusual glitches. > ps. After the re-install I ran the rpm command suggested earlier: > > [root@mango jkuo]# rpm -qa | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt > [root@mango jkuo]# ls > evolution ks.cfg mail rpm-Va.txt spool.txt > [root@mango jkuo]# ls -l > total 28 > drwx------ 5 jkuo jkuo 4096 Jan 15 09:55 evolution > -rw-rw-r-- 1 jkuo jkuo 947 Jan 14 23:51 ks.cfg > drwx------ 2 jkuo jkuo 4096 Jan 17 13:07 mail > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 150 Jan 17 15:36 rpm-Va.txt > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10483 Jan 17 14:47 spool.txt > [root@mango jkuo]# cat rpm-Va.txt > rpm -V bonobo-activation-devel-1.0.3-2 > rpm -V lslk-1.29-6 > rpm -V ORBit-devel-0.5.13-5 > rpm -V emacspeak-16.0-2 > xargs: rpm: terminated by signal 11 > > Does that last line, "terminated by signal 11" indicate a problem? -- > jfk It is an invalid memory reference (aka segmentation fault), and most often -- provided that the software is not faulty -- an indication of a hardware stability problem such as an overclocked CPU, cheap RAM chips, cheap mainboard. It should not happen. I assume this slightly changed command-line rpm -qa | sort | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt also terminates after running RPM on the fourth package. There is really no reason why RPM would not be able to verify your packages on a freshly installed machine. Anything else that doesn't work for you? What about re-compiling the kernel? - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+KIaO0iMVcrivHFQRAlk+AJ9lYJjDwIwsVWMyAZhlCfVwF+BnpgCfbRQK WkP538HuLByPFmMzVx22v/w= =GeB8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
