[NBLUG/talk] RPM Segmentation Fault

[Todd Cary]

Mark -

I checked the CPU on boot and it is a Pentium III, 667 MHz (I may have 
put a newer CPU on an old board).

Todd

Mark Street wrote:

>AHA!!!!
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>glibc....  Is this a 686 processor?  I will tell you what.  After your UPdate 
>finishes see if you can run any of the commands....  I bet you can't.
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>Here is what is happening, the i386 version of the glibc package is being 
>installed which breaks the system badly... bad enough so that you cannot use 
>RPM to fix what you have broken.
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>Several of my students this semester did this in class.  We had to rescue 
>their system....
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>http://www.streetchiro.com/linux/HelpMeFixIt
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>YOU MUST make sure that you install the glibc i686 package of glibc!  If you 
>have to download it manually and install it by hand then run UP2date.  Maybe 
>it is a bug in up2date?
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>On Saturday 06 December 2003 21:09, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>I ran up2date to the point where it was going to start the update.
>>There was a long list of packages that were flagged for update and I am
>>not sure if the flagged list went into a file.  However, amoung those
>>that appeared was glibc.  Some of the messages on Google for
>>segmentation erros had glibc in the text.  Not much help, particularly
>>with the long list of packages.
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