rpm -V - verifying packages

[bitlord]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:00:27 -0700
Robin Laing <MeSat at TelusPlanet.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

I don't know how 'prelink' works, it was default on <f21 (excluded on
f20-desktop live (gnome) too), if you have it installed
# rpm -q prelink 
you can try (check its man page first)
# prelink -ua 
then remove it. Maybe it can cause size changes in libraries-binaries.

If you have it installed, you can find some info here why it is removed
now.

https://securityblog.redhat.com/2013/11/06/october-what-have-we-been-doing-for-you/