On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 05:53:42PM +0200, Maor Meir wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > 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? > > Yes rpm -q works fine: > > What is the version of rpm and of glibc? > rpm-4.0.4-19mdk
> glibc-2.3.2-14mdk Where is it from? Any chance this version has NPTL support? > > > 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 rpmwith debug > > > symbols and debugging it as one of my own) If the above is true, check its environment for LD_ASSUME_KERNEL (/proc/<ID>/env) . Though I figure this is not that. > > > > Two useful tracing tools: > > > > strace, rpm -vv > > strace I already tried before ddn't seem very usefull, > rpm -Uvvh MySQL-server-5.0.0-0.i386.rpm > gave the followinf output: > ...snip... > D: closed db index /var/lib/rpm/Depends > D: ========== recording tsort relations > D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tree, > depth) > D: 0 0 1 0 0 MySQL-server-5.0.0-0 > D: installing binary packages > Preparing... ########################################### > [100%] > D: Expected size: 12448671 = lead(96)+sigs(149)+pad(3)+data(12448423) > D: Actual size: 12448671 > D: install: MySQL-server-5.0.0-0 has 164 files, test = 0 > Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- 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]
