On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:42:56 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: seawolf-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Need advise on a XFree86 upgrade.
>
>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.
Bug in RPM. Fixed in rpm 4.0.3.
>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.
Yes you can upgrade. Upgrading to any beta package is always a
risk of course.
>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.
Problem is already long long since solved. The latest 4.0.3-3
source package ensures that the proper RPM is installed by
depending on 4.0.3
Alternatively, use the binaries I've put at:
ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/bleeding-edge
Hope this helps.
If at first you don't succeed, call it version 1.0
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