I haven't followded the rest of this thread, so excuse me if I repeat what
has already been said or something which is completely useless !!!
I had loads of problems with rpm and like you part of the problem was popt.
To get rpm working 100% again required an rpm --rebuilddb after updating popt.
Hope this helps,
Owen
On Tuesday 28 Aug 2001 10:44 am, you wrote:
> Le Mardi 28 Ao�t 2001 08:41, vous avez �crit :
> > I'm assuming by the lack of response on this for three weeks that I
> > either have a problem that nobody cares about, nobody else is having,
> > nobody can come up with a fix for, or several/all the above.
> >
> > Since sending this, I've updated the popt and rpm packages to 0.21mdk,
> > but it still acts the same. Does ANYBODY have any clues as to why this
> > may be happening, and how I can debug/fix it?
>
> make an strace. If you reproduce the pb, send the strace log as an attached
> file and say precisely what you do.
> For example, If I wat to trace the installation of a rpm called myrpm.rpm,
> and have the log in the file named rpm.log :
> strace rpm -i myrpm.rpm 2> rpm.log &
>
> If you are able to read what the strace say ( man strace ), so you can show
> in the email what seems to be wrong
