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>fd->magic == 0xbeefdead' failed.
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>TSM Support tell me this is an rpm issue. ...
Most likely is. For interest, here's some background from my notes:
0xdeadbeef Some subsystems pre-populate allocated
memory with the hexadecimal string
0xdeadbeef (this 32-bit hex value is a
data processing affectation) so as to be
able to detect that an application has
failed to initialize an acquired subset
with binary zeroes. Landing on a
halfword boundary can obviously lead to
getting variant "0xbeefdead".
You didn't say how you obtained the rpm: the method may have resulted in its
corruption. Be sure to perform FTP downloads of programs in Binary mode.
Use appropriate levels of unzip as required, etc.
Richard Sims, http://people.bu.edu/rbs
