On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:25:17 -0700, Woodrow said:
>
> I recently upgraded RPM from 3.0.4 to 3.0.5 on a Mandrake 7.1
> box.
> I now get the following error message from Kpackage when I start it from
> a term window.
>
> " kpackage: Symbol `rpmTagTable' has different size in shared object,
> consider
> re-linking"
>
> It will also freeze-up if I am installing a program like a window
> manager that
> requires the menu-update. The package will be installed but Kpackage
> freezes and
> I have to kill it.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to re-link or otherwise repair this. I've
> checked> the RPM How-To and man pages, browsed the mailing list, etc., and found
> no
> mentions of "re-linking". Being that Mandrake doesn't use /etc/rpm/rpmrc
> as
> other distros I figure I better ask here before I make any other
> mistakes.
>
> Thanks for any and all help.
> Woodrow
>
>
>
>
This bug has been reported and is said to be fixed in kpackage-1.3.10-6. You
can find it in rawhide.
Caveat: I'm assuming that rpm itself is OK and you can perform all rpm commands
from the prompt or another gui, ie gnome's rpm prog.
