[NBLUG/talk] RPM Segmentation Fault

[Mark Street]

AHA!!!!

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.

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.

Several of my students this semester did this in class.  We had to rescue 
their system....

http://www.streetchiro.com/linux/HelpMeFixIt

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?


On Saturday 06 December 2003 21:09, Todd Cary wrote:
> 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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