rpm -V - verifying packages

Robin Laing MeSat at TelusPlanet.net
Sun Jan 18 04:14:11 UTC 2015


Hello,

I don't know if I found a bug with upgrade or if there is a strange 
issue with rpm.

I have upgraded from F19 to F21 on a machine.  The upgrade worked quite 
well.

Due to the nVidia driver changes, I installed the nVidia driver from 
nVidia instead of the normal rpmfusion as the 340 driver was not 
available.  Today I decided to give the latest Nouveau driver a try but 
knowing that the nVidia install can and will change files, I decided to 
check my machine with rpm -Va > rpm_verify.txt

To my shock, many files came back with
	S.?......
for the verification response.  When I say many, the line count is 705 
files.

I did rebuild the database after the upgrade but there seems to be some 
issue.

I have been going through the packages that I can and doing yum 
reinstall to clean them up.

The machine is running well so I am not sure where the issue is coming from.

Should I be submitting a bug report?  Under what package?


I will only be going back to the nVidia driver if I cannot get Steam 
working.

Robin




More information about the users mailing list