rpm -V - verifying packages

[Robin Laing]

On 2015-01-18 02:27, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 21:14:11 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> As superuser root?
>
> Any examples?
>
> Failure '?' very often (always?) is an indication that the test could not
> be performed because of failure to access the file. Failure 'S' is typical
> for config/data or regularly recompiled/optimized files, for example.
>

It was root in a terminal window

I do understand the configure and data files but when lib files are all 
showing that issue as below.

S.?......    /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0.1400.6
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libQtOpenGL.so.4.8.6
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libcanberra-gtk.so.0.1.9
S.?......    /usr/lib64/octave/3.8.2/liboctgui.so.0.0.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/octave/3.8.2/liboctinterp.so.2.0.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0.3600.8
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libQt5Gui.so.5.4.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libQt5OpenGL.so.5.4.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libQt5PrintSupport.so.5.4.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libQt5Widgets.so.5.4.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/xulrunner/crashreporter
S.?......    /usr/lib64/xulrunner/libxul.so
S.?......    /usr/lib64/xulrunner/plugin-container
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libkworkspace.so.4.14.3
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libhistory.so.6.3


S.?......    /usr/lib64/libwnck-3.so.0.2.2
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libqextserialport-1.2.so.1.0.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libkdewebkit.so.5.14.3
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libgdkglext-x11-1.0.so.0.0.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0.0.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libgdkmm-3.0.so.1.1.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libgtkmm-3.0.so.1.1.0
S.?......    /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kmix.so

S.?......    /usr/lib64/libgnomecanvas-2.so.0.3000.3
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_blend_fill
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_bluebox
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_colormask
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_decode_mplayer
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_detail_tracking

S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_plugins
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_storyboard
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_vid_common_encoder
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_vid_enc_rawframes
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_vid_enc_singleframes
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_video_extract
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_video_index
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_water_pattern
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_wr_color_balance
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_wr_color_curve
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_wr_color_huesat
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_wr_color_levels
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_wr_opacity
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_wr_resynth
S.?......    /usr/lib64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/gap_wr_trans

Or bin files.

S.?......    /usr/bin/gspiceui
S.?......    /usr/bin/opencv_createsamples
S.?......    /usr/bin/opencv_haartraining
S.?......    /usr/bin/opencv_performance
S.?......    /usr/bin/opencv_traincascade
S.?......    /usr/bin/toped
S.?......    /usr/bin/plasmapkg
S.?......    /usr/bin/importwizard
S.?......    /usr/bin/pimsettingexporter
S.?......    /usr/bin/storageservicemanager
S.?......    /usr/bin/kmediafactory
S.?......    /usr/bin/gpredict
S.?......    /usr/bin/gpscorrelate
S.?......    /usr/bin/gpscorrelate-gui
S.?......    /usr/bin/kst2
S.?......    /usr/bin/cmyktool
S.?......    /usr/bin/avidemux3_qt4
S.?......    /usr/bin/gpx-viewer

These are just some of the issues.

After that I started by running rpm -V <package>

yum reinstall <package> if it failed.

Then rpm -V <package> to verify.


I will check a different machine as well that I upgraded but it was from 
20 to 21 and 32 bit.