On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Maor Meir wrote: > Hi, > I am running mandrake 8.1, and practicly anything I do with rpm > ends in a segmentation fault. I have managed installing a few packages > with urpmi successfully but when I try installing external packages > with rpm I get a segmentation fault.
'rpm -q rpm' as a non-root user works? What is the version of rpm and of glibc? ls -l /var/lib/rpm > also when trying to remove packages rpm -e I get a seg-fault. > when installing/updating dependency checking and preperation of the > packages work fine and after that it fails. > I have tried rpm --rebuilddb which didn't do any good. > I have tried installing/removing several freeciv rpms and several mysql > rpms all had the same results. while urpmi still works fine. Does it actually install? You should see "progress bars", as it uses rpm -[iU]vh to install packages. > > what does urpmi do diffrently? > how does one debug rpm? (I would rather avoide compiling rpm with debug > symbols and debugging it as one of my own) Two useful tracing tools: strace, rpm -vv -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
