On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 12:47, Steve Ellis wrote: > Has anyone had the issue of rpm instance failing and requiring a reboot > to get rpm to work properly again? > > I tried to install some rpm's from freshrpms (mplayer, transcode, etc) > and had to firstly confirm no dependencies by running rpm in the bash > shell (in the gui nothing happened) > rpm -i --test whatever.i386.rpm > > if this was OK then I did the rpm -i > > if there was a dependency package missing sometimes it would alert me > other times it would report a segmentation fault. After the segmentation > fault I could still run the rpm --test but any attempt would leave rpm > running only a -9 kill would release the process. First, if rpm crashes or is killed, you can just remove the locks in /var/lib/rpm (files beginning with underscores). But the only times I've seen rpm segfault is on a machine with broken memory, so I'd advise you run the memory tester from www.memtest86.com before your system is really hosed. After that, you could look at apt-rpm to resolve the dependency problems for you... -- Klaasjan Brand <kjb@xxxxxx>
