On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:05 -0700, Paul Erickson wrote: > While doing a yum upgrade I received the following error message: > > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.63971: line 6: 13175 Segmentation fault > > /usr/sbin/module_upgrade 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5 > > > How serious is this, and what can I do to fix it? fairly so.. rpm shouldn't segfault. it may be that the rpm database has become corrupted. before doing anything about that, you may want to run a manual fsck (booting from the install cd in rescue mode) of the drive and look for deeper problems before proceeding with an rpm database repair on an already corrupted filesystem. If you decide not to do that, I'd strongly recommend talking with the folks in the #rpm channel on irc.freenode.net via xchat or the chatzilla plugin in Firefox, before doing anything with the rpm database. There's several steps to take aside from the former 'conventional wisdom', as I found out the hard way. They are most helpful there. (can you tell I went through some rpm database corruption recently, myself? :) tell me something, just out of personal curiosity. Are you running ati/nvidia/ntfs/wireless drivers, or ANY other similar nonstandard kernel modules? (strange question, I know, but one that *I* myself was asked by another tech when I reported problems that eerily resemble yours)
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