On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Karl J. Runge wrote:
Sheesh! I get great adice from you guys and it just gets worse!
I downloaded the XFree86 from rawhide (XFree86-4.1.0-0.20.0.src.rpm) and
did an rpm -bb after installing the src:
[root@syslang SPECS]# rpm -ba XFree86.spec
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
The segfault happens within a half second.
I also tried -bb, -bp and even the lowly -bl with the same result.
I seem to be able to build other things ok. But now I need guidance to
possible screw myself up in a much worserer way. I'm running rpm-4.0.2-8
which is stock with RH-7.1 and I'm wondering if I can upgrade rpm to the
rpm-4.0.3-0.96 (96!?! This is not instilling confidence.) without
irreversible tragedy.
I tried running gdb on the resulting core and the segfault seems to be
coming from /usr/lib/rpm/rpmb (which I assume is the build stuff). I tried
strace and all I got there was that it happened after a bunch of calls to
gettimeofday.
Other than that, I don't know what I can add. Any suggestions would be
great. I'll make a backup in the meantime. ;-|
TIA
=>
=>One thing to do in this case is to telnet in from the other machine,
=>become root and run a command like:
=>
=># switchto 2
=>
=>which should switch you to VC #2. Hopefully that will give you a live
=>keyboard.
=>
=>
=>If the keyboard was working but the output missing (I've found running
=>some games can do this), then you could type (blindly) in the
=>switchto(1) command at the console. Setting up restoretextmode(1) (say
=>via a short alias) can be useful too.
=>
=>It may also be possible to start up xdm (or even startx) from the
=>remote login (perhaps open(1) is required can't recall...). There is
=>some chance when the X server restarts it resets the keyboard and mouse.
=>
=>Karl
=>
=>
=>BTW: I assume at the frozen keyboard you have already tried things
=>like "Ctrl-Alt-F2" or "Alt-F2" to try to shift over to, say, VC #2,
=>on the off chance it is stuck in VC #7 (the VC X typically uses).
=>
=>
=>On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:27:55PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>> I have an intermittent behavior regarding my keyboard and I was hoping
=>> someone here might have a clue what's going on here:
=>>
=>> Every so often, I decide to exit X just for the purpose of restarting it
=>> (X). The server can get pretty large after a while. Sometimes, not
=>> everytime, I'll exit out of X and my keyboard will be dead. The lights
=>> will not respond or anything else on the keyboard. Also the mouse is dead.
=>> If I go to another machine and telnet over, I can reboot it. But I'm
=>> getting pretty damn tired of this. I'm running
=>> RH-71./XFree86-4.0.3/kde/2.1.2
=>>
=>> Any advise from anyone here?
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