On Saturday 01 November 2003 9:34 am, Sergio Espinoza Dien wrote:
On Saturday 01 November 2003 2:12 am, Richard Bos wrote:
Op zaterdag 1 november 2003 08:06, schreef Sergio Espinoza Dien:
I ran "apt-get upgrade" recently (on two different boxes), which downloaded about 25Mb of RPMs (each), then started on the installation and upgrading of existing/new RPMs.
Immediately on trying this, the script crashed (on both boxes) with this error:
E: Sub-process /bin/rpm recieved a segmentation fault.
Which rpms are you upgrade? What happens if you execute an apt-get install <1 of the pkgs that is to be upgraded>
By doing one on one instalation I have discovered that the file that is giving trouble is kdeartwork3-xscreensaver Check this... linux:/home/serespdi/downloads # apt-get install kdeartwork3-xscreensaver Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be upgraded kdeartwork3-xscreensaver 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 17 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/153kB of archives. After unpacking 44.7kB of additional disk space will be used. Executing RPM (-Uvh)... E: Sub-process /bin/rpm recieved a segmentation fault. so I tried to remove it... linux:/home/serespdi # apt-get remove kdeartwork3-xscreensaver Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: kdeartwork3-xscreensaver 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 17 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 1164kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Executing RPM (-e)... E: Sub-process /bin/rpm recieved a segmentation fault. Therefore, I went to a SuSE ftp mirror (ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/suse/suse/i386/supplementary/KDE/update_for_8.2/ applications) and downloaded the file to try to fix the problem and... linux:/home/serespdi/downloads # rpm -Uvh kdeartwork3-xscreensaver-3.1.4-34.i586.rpm Segmentation fault Am I crazy or just the usual dumb newbie? All comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Sergio Espinoza Dien linux@sergioespinoza.com http://www.sergioespinoza.com/ http://www.xtremecode.net/ Linux User #328168 *Delivered by Kmail