Failed rpm install

[Stephen Swaney]

Don't know if your using redhat 8, but if you are - Redhat 8 rpm has a
(yet unfixed) feature. Symptom is that rpm commands hang.  If rpm is
acting up in any way, You might try removing:

/var/lib/rpm/__db.001
/var/lib/rpm/__db.002
/var/lib/rpm/__db.003

then rpm --rebuilddb

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 14:00, Julian Field wrote:

> Does "rpm -Uv" produce any more useful info than  -Uvh ?
> Sounds like something is broken on your redhat box.
>
> Does a "rpm --rebuilddb" help at all?
>
> At 18:53 03/05/2003, you wrote:
> >Thanks for your help, I re-downloaded the file and gunzipped
> >it with tar xvzf, and also used sum on the mailscanner*rpm file which gave
> >exactly the same readings as they should be: 40654 563.
> >
> >Could it be a fault not with the mailscanner install but something else on
> >the machine?
> >
> >I then tried the  ./inshall.sh script which executed perfectly up until this
> >point:
> >---------
> >Installing tnef decoder
> >
> >Preparing...  ########################################### [100%]
> >package tnef-1.1.4-sizelimit1 is already installed
> >
> >Now to install MailScanner itself.
> >
> >Preparing...  ########################################### [100%]
> >./install.sh: line 254: 30758 Segmentation fault
> >rpm -Uvh ${NODEPS} mailscanner*noarch.rpm
> >---------
> >
> >
> >Then tried both these commands:
> >---------
> >[root at cur MailScanner-4.20-3]# rpm -Uvh --nodeps mailscanner*rpm
> >Preparing...  ########################################### [100%]
> >Segmentation fault
> >[root at cur MailScanner-4.20-3]# rpm -Uvh mailscanner*rpm
> >Preparing...  ########################################### [100%]
> >Segmentation fault
> >---------
> >
> >
> > > To start with, try downloading it again and check that you
> > > have a correct copy. The command
> > >          sum mailscanner*rpm
> > > should produce
> > >          40654   563
> > >
> > > I haven't changed anything in the way that I package it,
> > > other than the entire distribution comes compressed (i.e.
> > > .tar.gz instead of just .tar).
>
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> Professional Support Services at www.MailScanner.biz
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