[rhn-users] RE: up2date segmentation faults

[Pete Toscano]

Hey, that works.  Thanks for the pointer.

pete

On Wed, 19 May 2004, Ronald Jimmink wrote:

> Regarding the Segmentation faults, I have seen that as well. It was
> caused by a corrupt file in the spool directory /var/spool/up2date
> 
> After emptying it, up2date started working again.
> 
> Hope this helps - Ronald
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> I have four currently deployed RHEL 3 ES boxes.  When the Update 2 RPMs
> were added to the EL 3 channel, I had all my boxes apply errata and
> update.
>  
> 
> First, none of them applied the updates after I added them to the update
> queue (and waited at least a day).  I had to run rhn_update as root by
> hand on every box for the update processing to begin.  Then, only 2 of
> the boxes started updates.  I had to continually run it as the updating
> kept failing with timeouts.
>  
> 
> For the other two, I constantly get seg faults.  I tried rebuilding the
> RPM database.  I tried deleting the profiles.  I tried only applying one
> errata at a time.  Nothing works and I keep getting...
>  
> 
> [pete at box pete]$ sudo /usr/sbin/rhn_check
> errata.update ([2102],)
> Segmentation fault
>  
> 
> Any suggestions on how to get this working?

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