Fix Broken RPM System?

[Ryan R. La Mothe]

Slim,

	The system I am running is Redhat Fedora Core 2.  The only information I had to go on was "Segmentation Fault" when I tried to use RPM for anything.  After 6 frustrating hours panicking because a near production ready system was not working, I found the solution through some arcane website pages that I luckily stumbled across.  It appears as though Fedora documentation and troubleshooting is not the highest on the food chain, but I do appreciate the help I did receive from people on this mailing list.  What ticks me off is that after almost ~9 years (rough guess) of Redhat Linux RPM's being around that their isn't better documentation of how to fix the RPM system if it goes down.

Thanks.



-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of slim
Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 2:12 AM
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: RE: Fix Broken RPM System?


On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 18:17, Ryan R. La Mothe wrote:
> Thank you, it appears I was able to fix this problem by doing the following:
> 
> 1)  export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
> 2)  export RPM_FORCE_NPTL=1
> 3)  killall -9 rpm rpmb rpmd rpme rpmi rpmk rpmq rpmt rpmu rpmv; 
> 4)  rm -rf /var/lib/rpm*.* /var/lib/rpm/__db* /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb*.*; 
> 5)  rpm -v --rebuilddb &
> 
> 
> These instructions were found at:
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21164634
> http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-May/001698.html
> 
> THESE INSTRUCTIONS SHOULD BE ON REDHAT'S MAIN FEDORA WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> 
> Now, does anyone have a solution to the ldconfig problem?
> 
> -->I have been getting this error almost every time I have used RPM in the past couple of days:
> 
> "ldconfig:  File /usr/lib/libkdepim.so.1.0.0.#prelink#.J7eGQz is too small, not checked."
> 
> Sometimes RPM would complain about more than one file with this error, but this is what I get when I run ldconfig by itself.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Michael Schwendt
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 5:47 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Fix Broken RPM System?
> 
> 
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:44:26 -0700 (PDT), Ryan La Mothe wrote:
> 
> > Okay, here is the problem:
> > 
> > 1)  I updated RPM from updates (up2date and apt-get)
> > 2)  Don't remember doing anything else to RPM after that
> > 3)  Used rpm -e to uninstall redhat's old mysql and related programs
> > 4)  Now, when I use RPM for anything I get "Segmentation Fault"
> > 
> > 
> > How do I fix RPM?  This is very scary because I am working on this
> > server for entry into a corporate environment.  If RPM is not fixable
> > (from tar.gz source? which I can't find anywhere), then I am dumping
> > this distribution like a bad habit because a single update like this
> > causing system-wide disaster is scary as hell.
> > 
> > Please Help.
<snip>
Whoa.. take a breath....
what system are you running? did you install or upgrade?
if you upgraded from what to what?

People are pretty friendly around here, And willing to help.
But their kinda like my cat, If you yell at them (caps) they sorta just
kick back and look at you if ya know what I mean.

Give more info so more people can help you..

Slim


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