On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 18:17, Ryan R. La Mothe wrote: > Thank you, it appears I was able to fix this problem by doing the following: > > 1) export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19 > 2) export RPM_FORCE_NPTL=1 > 3) killall -9 rpm rpmb rpmd rpme rpmi rpmk rpmq rpmt rpmu rpmv; > 4) rm -rf /var/lib/rpm*.* /var/lib/rpm/__db* /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb*.*; > 5) rpm -v --rebuilddb & > > > These instructions were found at: > http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21164634 > http://beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users/2004-May/001698.html > > THESE INSTRUCTIONS SHOULD BE ON REDHAT'S MAIN FEDORA WEBSITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > Now, does anyone have a solution to the ldconfig problem? > > -->I have been getting this error almost every time I have used RPM in the past couple of days: > > "ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libkdepim.so.1.0.0.#prelink#.J7eGQz is too small, not checked." > > Sometimes RPM would complain about more than one file with this error, but this is what I get when I run ldconfig by itself. > > Thank you. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Schwendt > Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 5:47 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Fix Broken RPM System? > > > On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:44:26 -0700 (PDT), Ryan La Mothe wrote: > > > Okay, here is the problem: > > > > 1) I updated RPM from updates (up2date and apt-get) > > 2) Don't remember doing anything else to RPM after that > > 3) Used rpm -e to uninstall redhat's old mysql and related programs > > 4) Now, when I use RPM for anything I get "Segmentation Fault" > > > > > > How do I fix RPM? This is very scary because I am working on this > > server for entry into a corporate environment. If RPM is not fixable > > (from tar.gz source? which I can't find anywhere), then I am dumping > > this distribution like a bad habit because a single update like this > > causing system-wide disaster is scary as hell. > > > > Please Help. <snip> Whoa.. take a breath.... what system are you running? did you install or upgrade? if you upgraded from what to what? People are pretty friendly around here, And willing to help. But their kinda like my cat, If you yell at them (caps) they sorta just kick back and look at you if ya know what I mean. Give more info so more people can help you.. Slim
