[WBEL-users] Weird RPM install problem

[Kirby Bohling]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 08:05:38PM -0500, Vincent.Raffensberger@dtn.com wrote:
> I don't have an answer for you, but I do have some (hopefully) helpful 
> suggestions:

	Yes, your suggestion was most helpful...

> Here are a couple related tips:
> 
> You can typically build an rpm from a tarball by using 'rpmbuild -tb 
> tarball.tgz'.  Rpm will try to find the spec file within the tarball and 
> you won't need to jump through hoops.

	You know I remember reading that in the man page, thanks that'll
save me time in the future.

> If your rpm database gets corrupted, you can repair it.  If it's frequent 
> enough, make a script to do this:
> 
> killall -9 rpm rpmb rpmd rpme rpmi rpmk rpmq rpmt rpmu rpmv
> rm -rf /var/lib/rpm*.* /var/lib/rpm/__db* /var/lib/rpmrebuilddb*.*
> rpm -v --rebuilddb

	This was in fact the fix.  After doing this, it ran just fine.
I hate the RPM database.  It always cause me more trouble then is
solves.  Glad to know I'm not insane...  I have a half dozen
machines built exactly the same way (I'm writting kickstart scripts
to build identical machines), I'll have to see if something I'm
going it causing this problem.

	Thanks a bunch,
		Kirby


> Kirby Bohling <kbohling@birddog.com> 

> WBEL-users,
> 
>                  I've got a very strange problem, that I've never had 
> before:
> 
> I have two RPM's that I built myself, that when installed all on one
> RPM command line it segfaults rpm, and locks up the RPM db.  When I
> do them one at a time, they work fine:
> 
> nagios-plugins-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm 
> nrpe-1.9-1.i386.rpm
> 
> I downloaded the associated tarballs from sourceforge.  I extracted
> the .spec file.  I dump the tarballs into /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES,
> I dump the .spec files into /usr/src/redhat/SPECS.
> 
> # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> 
> # rpmbuild -ba nagios-plugins.spec
> # rpmbuild -ba nrpe.spec
> 
> # cd ../RPMS/i386
> 
> # useradd nagios
> 
> [root@hawk i386]# rpm -Uhv nagios-plugins-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm 
> nrpe-1.9-1.i386.rpm
> Segmentation fault
> 
> At this point, my RPM database is stuck until I reboot.  If I do:
> 
> rpm -Uhv nagios-plugins-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm
> 
> that will mostly work, but will hang on a futex.  The RPM database will 
> never
> get updated, but the package is installed.  I reboot.
> 
> I run this:
> 
> rpm -Uhv nagios-plugins-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm 
> rpm -Uhv nrpe-1.9-1.i386.rpm
> 
> That works just fine.  My package installs fine.
> 
> I run:
> 
> # rpm -e nrpe-1.9-1.i386.rpm
> # rpm -e nagios-plugins-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm
> 
> # rpm -Uhv nagios-plugins-1.3.1-1.i386.rpm nrpe-1.9-1.i386.rpm
> I get another segmentation fault, again I have to reboot before my
> RPM database works again.  So my problem is pretty repeatable.
> 
>                  I've had other packages I've created on this machine fail 
> also.
> The details escape me right now, but the
> msttcorefonts-1.3-4.noarch.rpm (also from sourceforge) I know for a
> fact died on me every time I tried to do an install.  I grabbed the
> same spec file, drug it over to a RH 7.2 box, build the package
> there, and it installs fine on both the 7.2 machine, and the WBEL
> 3.0 machine.
> 
>                  I've built the nagios-plugin and nrpe RPMs from the same 
> sources
> probably a half dozen times on RH 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 9.0.  While
> I've had problems before, it was mostly that it was attempting to
> chmod the files to a user that didn't exist.  All I had to do was
> useradd nagios (as I did above), and everything was fine after that.
> 
>                  Any chance there's another WBEL and nagios user out there 
> that
> has seen this?  Anybody else had odd problems with third part
> SRPM's?  It wouldn't really bother me, other then the fact, that I
> have to reboot to clear up the problem, and I'm not sure if I yumify
> the RPM's if I can get YUM to install them one at a time.
> 
>                  I've googled about, but I haven't seen anyone who as the 
> same
> problems I do on WhiteBox.
> 
>                  Thanks,
>                                  Kirby
> 
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