Re: Seg fault / memory error with yum 3.2 on redhat 5.5

On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, Rob Moser wrote:

> Sorry for the delay - I tried that, found some things that I thought
> might be causing the problem, and fixed them, but no luck; yum still
> gives me the same error.  Everything else that is non-standard looks
> fairly explicable to me, but I'll copy the list below in case anything
> jumps out at you.  But the process of looking at this gave me another
> clue: running rpm -Va generated some similar memory allocation failure
> messages, like this one:
>
> prelink: /usr/bin/gnome-about-me: Could not parse
> `/usr/bin/gnome-about-me: error while loading shared libraries:
> libasound.so.2: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot
> allocate memory'

I wonder if things could have gone sideways in an odd way during a 
prelink...

maybe consider doing a prelink --undo --all

?


>
> prelink: /usr/bin/gnome-about-me: Could not parse
> `/usr/bin/gnome-about-me: error while loading shared libraries:
> libasound.so.2: failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot
> allocate memory'
> prelink: /usr/bin/gnome-about-me: at least one of file's dependencies
> has changed since prelinking

It looks like you have a lot of perl damage here.

Have you been installing perl modules using CPAN and not using rpms?

-sv