On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 01:38:05PM +0530, phanisvara das wrote:
a strange thing happened today: trying to update all newer packages via YAST, the software manager, after solving all dependency problems, started to download for a second, then exited w/o error. "zypper up" brought up a new agreement form for an oS 11.4 licence, then segfaulted. no help in zypper.log or y2log, but /var/log/messages had this to say:
Dec 9 11:29:12 phani kernel: [ 3610.153426] zypper[17239] general protection ip:7f953c30ca6f sp:7fff67f49d50 error:0 in libcurl.so.4.2.0[7f953c2e2000+5a000]
i re-tried several times, after successfully running "zypper ref -f" and "rpmdb --rebuilddb", with the same result: segfault. finally i thought there might be something wrong with one of the factory repos, so i disabled OSS & non-OSS, after which both zypper up & yast updated their new packages w/o problem.
next thing i enabled OSS and then non-OSS again, and no further error happened. updates from OSS included rpm and rpm-python, but since there have not been any changes to the rpm system prior to the error, i don't think that's relevant.
in any case, things are working ok for me again; i'm just wondering what did happen, and if it happened to other factory users as well? for now i'm assuming it was a temporary glitch while the repos were being updated.
The crash was in "curl" apparently, so during the downloading, so its not the repo or rpm state, but something in the download magic I suspect. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org