[nylug-talk] RPM segfault; beginning to think I'm screwed

[Sunny Dubey]

On Friday 22 December 2006 10:50, Allen Shaw wrote:

> This system never had an rpm upgrade; it's running the same version of
> rpm that came with the distro at install time.
>
> As far as I can see, other rpm commands (rpm -q*, etc.), are working
> fine. Seems like only rpm -e, -i, and -U are giving problems. Oddly,
> this morning I tested a couple of things like this:
>

Unfortunately the strace didn't provide any insightful information.  (Or at 
least info I could glean with my skills.)  The command clearly segfaults 
because it doesn't even get to open(webmin.rpm) before it crashes.

The above is interesting.  Can you try rpm -Va ? This verifies the md5 hashes 
of all files on the system and may provide clues on to whats going on.

The output is mildly cryptic, but its usually the first and third fields we 
care about.  IE:

S.5....T    /lib/modules/2.6.17-5mdv/modules.dep

The 'S' means the file size is different than expected, and the '5' means the 
md5 hash is different than expected.

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Sunny Dubey

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