get 'segmentation error' when installing Webmin RPM in Redhat 9.0

John Kennedy kennedy456 at totalspeed.net
Tue Sep 28 02:53:38 UTC 2004


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.
> 
> -- 

Thank you

I'll research it and see what happens

Johnny



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