[Yum] Re: Yum and kernel upgrades?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sun Dec 22 17:26:04 UTC 2002


On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 12:25, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2002, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Agreed!! I have 2 of them that do this. I might have more but I only
> > > have 2 of them setup to build rpms on.
> > > 
> > > > this doesn't happen with any of the other pkgs you try to install?
> > > 
> > > No it does not. In fact I just did this with a couple of rpms tonight.
> > > 
> > 
> > Jeff Johnson mentioned something to me offlist - he said segfaults in
> > rpm are either a corrupt pkg hdr or a corrupt rpmdb.
> 
> Ok, but then how to fix?? I have done rpm --rebuilddb on both machines
> exhibiting this behaviour. I thought rebuilddb was supposed to fix
> database corruption. Besides does the db even get used for unpacking
> an srpm??
> 
> > might be worth trying an rpm -ivh on a new machine.
> 
> More weirdness. I fired up my test machine (8.0) and tried the Uvh and it
> works. Now I am really confused. maybe it is time to give up. Problem
> is I know this will bite me when I need it to work most. Maybe time to
> ask on the rpm list.
> 
> Oh well, Thanks for the help,


so, more to the point of this list - did yum work as you expected it?

-sv





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