Re: rpm problem

Hi,

>>> root@grithr graydon]# rpm -q bash bash-2.05b-20 Segmentation
>>> fault [...]

> I was bitten by this bug too.  For now I downgraded to rpm-4.2-0.70.
>  Because rpm was broken, I did the following.
> 
> mkdir temp cd temp rpm2cpio ../rpm-4.2-0.70.i386.rpm | cpio --extract
> -d I copied the binaries over to the system, overwriting the binaries
> from rpm-4.2-0.71.  What seemed to stop it from crashing was
> replacing the files in /usr/lib/.
> 
> After doing the same thing for popt, I used:
> 
> rpm -Uvh rpm*0.70*.i386.rpm popt*0.70.i386.rpm --oldpackage

Same problem here with rpm-4.2-0.71; no way to install or uninstall 
anything, and everything on top of RPM (apt-get, synaptic, Red Hat 
package management etc.) is broken, also.

The procedure you described works, but doesn't solve the segfault 
problem for me, I'm still getting a segmentation fault (resp. 
'Speicherzugriffsfehler' in the German version) after overwriting the 
files in /usr/lib and /usr/bin with the extracted versions.

I tried to boot from the rescue CD and install 
rpm-build-4.2-0.70.i386.rpm, but this wasn't possible either.

Any other ideas instead of 'reinstall OS' (at least this worked always 
under Windows ;)? Is there any low-level equivalent to Debian's dpkg for 
RPM?

Greetings, -asb



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