"J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi... > > Everytime I use rpmdrake to update things, I get a 'core' in /var/tmp, > but everything seems to go well:
hmm then your rpm-tmp files are most probably related to this problem. can you give me the full URL line? maybe this could help reproduce, because I can't otherwise.. [...] > werewolf:/var/tmp# gdb /usr/sbin/grpmi core > GNU gdb 5.2-3mdk (Mandrake Linux) > Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "i586-mandrake-linux-gnu"..."/usr/sbin/grpmi": not in >executable format: File format not recognized Hmm, you need to gdb perl. > Core was generated by `/usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/grpmi >ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-deve'. [...] > See the 'Core was generated...'. Does this point to a string overrrun ? Not sure.. the command # /usr/bin/perl /usr/sbin/grpmi ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake-deve works on my machine (Error: Ftp couldn't RETR file). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/