Are My RPM/Yum Seg-Faults Due to the Kernel FIle Corruption?

[Paul Dickson]

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 09:16:53 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote:

> Is the file corruption problem currently being discussed on LKML related
> to the RPM/Yum seg-faults I occasionally on my 300 MHz, PII, notebook
> (with only 256 MB of RAM)?
> 
> I usually see the seg-faults while glibc-common is being updated during a
> large update (within the first 2 or 3 files of 30+ file update).  If I
> update glibc* first, that, and the following updated of the remainder
> always works.  If glibc has a lot of dependency info, I can see the
> /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* databases taking a hit and requiring manual
> deletion to restart.
> 
> If this is true, this bug might have started before FC6 was released, but
> only gets hit when memory runs low.

I forgot to mention the notebook is running kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
which is 2.6.18.1.

	-Paul