RPM (Segment Fault)?????

[xamox]

Alright I recently got into the whole linux fab.

Well I installed RedHat 7.1 workstation, and it doesn't include "linuxconf" as part of the packages and i want to install this.

Well when I try to install the RPM I get an error saying "Segment Fault" and when I try opening the packager in the X desktop I get the same error.

I know my cdrom is mounted and working. And I am logged in as root. I don't know why it is doing this. I am keneral build 2.4.2-2. I used the command(after my cdrom is mounted):
rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/linuxconf*

I would very much appreciate anyone who can help me I very much want to learn linux.

Thanks,
xamox

[ 16 October 2001: Message edited by: xamox ]

[Dark Ninja]

Was this a download that you got, or...coming off the CD, or what? If it's something you downloaded, it could be that you had a glitch sometime through the download process and you got a bad download.

If you burned your own CD, the same sort of thing may have happened. (Download glitches are bad.) Other than those two things - I'm not sure what your problem may be.


Dark Ninja

[bdg1983]

All I can think of to try would be to copy linuxconf to your hd and try installing from there.

mount /mnt/cdrom
cp /mnt/cdrom/Redhat/RPMS/linuxconf-#.#.#.i386.rpm .
rpm -Uvh linuxconf-#.#.#.i386.rpm

[xamox]

Actually the packages are coming off a cd yes. I did what you said and copied them to the hard drive but still no luck. The problem is not with the package but the packager itself.

When I open KPackage in KDE, it crashes and the "KDE Crash Handler" pops up and says:

The application KPackage(kpackage) crashed and caused the signal 11(SIGSEGV).

Than it proceeds with:
An application mostly receives the SIGSEGV signal due to a bug in the application.

It says I can report the bug to the creator.

So is RPM messed up itself? If so how would I go by removing RPM and reinstalling it?

It's pretty frustrating that such an important program is causing errors.

Thanks for everyone's help,

xamox

[bdg1983]

Have you checked Redhat's support site to see if this problem has been reported and a fix posted? The first place I would check.

[posterboy]

maybe get some help at the user group, too, the head dood who writes the RPM code hangs out there. It's the group linux.redhat.rpm. I had that trouble here after ximian code was used a few months. There's a new RPM that fixes it's own broken database issues at --rebuild time. Worked for me. Ray

[xamox]

Thanks everyone who has helped, I searched newsgroups and found someone with the same problem. Someone posted in return that they should run the command:

rpm --rebuilddb

I did and am still getting the same error. I am just going to reinstall RedHat it's not a big deal though because I haven't really configured anything on it. Thanks for the help everyyone and I'll let you know if the re-install remedy's the problem.