running 'rpm -V' (was Re: Nautilus has gone gaga)

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 20:48:15 UTC 2004


Since I had problems a few days ago with installs that corrupted
the rpmdb on this system, I decided to try running 'rpm -V' 
against all my installed packages.

Seems not to run well if your are running SELinux strict/enforcing.
Runs better in permissive mode.

When running as root, I get scads of messages like:
....
prelink: /usr/lib/liblwres.so.1.1.2: at least one of file's
dependencies has changed since prelinking
prelink: /usr/bin/dig: at least one of file's dependencies has changed
since prelinking
prelink: /usr/bin/host: at least one of file's dependencies has
changed since prelinking
prelink: /usr/bin/nslookup: at least one of file's dependencies has
changed since prelinking
prelink: /usr/bin/nsupdate: at least one of file's dependencies has
changed since prelinking
....
typically with an associated message like: 

S.?......   /usr/lib/liblwres.so.1.1.2
S.?......   /usr/bin/dig
S.?......   /usr/bin/host
S.?......   /usr/bin/nslookup
S.?......   /usr/bin/nsupdate

So the 64Mb question: 
     Is this a result of prelinking? 
     Is my rpmdb still messed up?
     Is this safely ignored?

thanks,
   tom




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