get 'segmentation error' when installing Webmin RPM in Redhat 9.0
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Sep 28 15:22:25 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 23:57, John Kennedy wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:28:04 +0800
> Edward <edward at tripled.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > John Kennedy wrote:
> >
> > > I have an old Redhat 9.0 box that I haven't gotten around to upgrading to
> > > fedora that gives me 'a segmentation' error message when I do
> > > rpm -U webmin-1.160-1.noarch.rpm
> > >
> > > I have tried rpm -i webmin-1.160-1.noarch.rpm as well and this locks up.
> > >
> > > Could someone please tell me what I'm dealing with here?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Johnny
> >
> > Try:
> >
> > rpm -Uvh webmin-1.160-1.noarch.rpm
> >
> > If it doesn't work, you may have been bitten by the RPM lock file bug
> > that plagued RH9 (yes, it is Redhat 9, not 9.0).
> >
> > I can't remember off-hand how to fix it, it was something like kill all
> > RPM instances, remove some files that ended in 'db' and do a rebuild on
> > the RPM database.
> >
> > A google search may bring up the steps required as this was very prevalent.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ed.
>
> Hi again Ed. I had not yet tried
> rpm -Uvh webmin-1.160-1.noarch.rpm before I emailed my reply. Sorry.
>
> Tried it and it worked. Thanks. What does the 'vh' add to the mix?
>
> Johnny
>
>
"man rpm" will list the details of all the options.
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