Have you installed red-carpet? -- Andy
--- Richard Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
