Re: wombat yum debug?

Christian Joensson wrote:

>I'd like to have yum working on my SS20 running wombat, build-1.91.
>
>Whenever I try yum, I get this:
>
>[root@sparky root]# yum update
>Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
>Server: Fedora Core 1.91 - sparc - Base
>Segmentation fault
>[root@sparky root]#
>
>Anyone has any ideas?
>  
>

I suspect select(2) on sparc is buggy.

Verify using strace, if select was one of the last syscalls, then this 
is a problem fixed last week in rpm.
Well not fixed, just segfault avoidance workaround ...

Callaway has details, basically use poll(2) instead.

HTH

73 de Jeff


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