On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Oisin Feeley wrote: > Hi, > I've been attempting to update an unregistered (with Red Hat) machine by > downloading the errata and then installing them. I ran into an error > with the glibc and glibc-common errata: > > Preparing... ##################################### [100%] > 1:glibc-common ##################################### [50%] > 2:glibc ##################################### [100%] > error: %post(glibc-2.3.2-27.9) scriptlet failed, exit status 121 > > any other attempts to use rpm (or any other command) result in a > segementation fault. Sounds like you upgraded to the i386 glibc RPM instead of the i686 RPM. See this URL for more details (and how to fix it). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88456 David.