I believe I've narrowed the problem down to some ugly Ximian packages that are on my system (I love Evolution, but I am seriously questioning my wisdom in putting the entire Ximian GNOME desktop onto my computer).
I communicated with a fellow at Ximian who suggests downgrading all of my Ximian packages, being especially careful with glibc, and doing a package-by-package upgrade of the RPM's on my system. Grumble. I wonder if it would be easier to zark my Linux installation as it is, tarring up my home directory into my data partition, and reinstalling RH8.0 from scratch? Opinions? Suggestions? Advice? Offers to come and do it for me (newbie fear setting in -- I can handle most kernel panics and just about everything else that comes up on my system pretty much on my own now, thanks to the extraordinary patience of my brother-in-law and this awesome LUG, but OS installs always intimidate the bejeebers out of me, even when I'm just doing a Windows install)? Richard On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:53, Richard Crawford wrote: > On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 11:58, ME wrote: > > > Fail after a pwrite? Hmm. Would you mind running this again, but instead try: > > # strace -f rpm --rebuilddb > > ? The -f also does the strace on child processes spawned by the first. I > > am betting that "rpm --rebuilddb" actually calls a different program that > > is segfaulting and the strace is not contintuing to the next app being > > called. > > (Just guessing) > > > > If the output of the lines just preceeding the SIGSEGV is the same, you > > dont need to paste it in again, just let us know. If the output leading up > > to the Segfault is different, could you include the new run/output like > > you did this time? :-) > > I ran, > > # strace -f rpm --rebuilddb > > and got exactly the same output. Eerie. > > I should point out that other functions of rpm (-i, -e, -qa, etc.) > function normally. It's when I run it with --rebuilddb that it bombs. > > > > On the topic of "time". After you run the program, does it immediately > > return the message "segfault" or does it take a while and occur after lots > > of disk activity? > > It's immediate. There's no hard drive activity at all. -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Yahoo!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery vi vi vi - the editor of the beast _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
