Package managers gone haywire! yum, apt, rpm: pam is totally borked

[Claude Jones]

On Sunday June 17 2007 11:22:11 pm Kam Leo wrote:
> > so pam and pam-devel seem to be turned sideways in the birth canal - they
> > just segfault no matter how I try to install/update, and
> >
> >  libtypefree is having growing pains
> >
> > anybody see any pattern in this? I have been googling this a lot but
> > haven't the magic bullet
> > --
> > Claude Jones
> > Brunswick, MD
>
> Smart outputs a temporary name resolution error for anything that has
> to do with download.fedora.redhat.com. Is that what you are observing?
> If that is the case I'm assuming that the server is down and would
> recommend using a mirror.

Kam - maybe you were in a hurry. This is not about name resolution errors. 
Using smart, yum, synaptic, or just plain rpm, I'm getting a segfault when I 
try to update pam and pam-devel, or in the case of the GUI based apps, 
they're just freezing, locking up with no error messages - there's no CPU 
activity going on at that point -- there's just a window with no info, or a 
stuck progress bar, or an endless hourglass. If I download the rpms and use 
rpm to try and install pam and pam-devel that's when I get a clear message 
which is a segfault. I tried the --force option as well, but just segfault. 
And removing pam is not an option, because it wants to remove a ton of other 
apps

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD