yum/rpm triggers "segment violation"

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:33:36 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 23:12 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:03:41 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:06 -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
> > > > Hi. 
> > > > 
> > > > On friday I've installed a fedora9(i386). After "yum update" and
> > > > rebooting, both yum and rpm commands show "segment violation", only "rpm
> > > > --usage" works.
> > > > 
> > > What does:"only rpm usage works" mean?
> > 
> > Exactly what is written above. Running "rpm --usage" works, other
> > commands cause a segfault.
> > 
> That is fine but on my F9 machine man rpm shows no --usage option.
> So I am confused.

Yeah.

$ rpm --help|grep usage
  --usage                          Display brief usage message

Which prints the same as running "rpm" without options.