Thanks to all who made suggestions. (BTW, i've been running rpm-3.0.6
all the while).
What I ended up needing to do was download the tarball for rpm-3.0.6
(the same version that i had installed via RPM), and building it from
source. Apparently something within the old rpm binary wasn't too happy
about the new locale-data from the new glibc. Compiling a new one
against the new glibc did the trick, almost.
I ended up having to remove the original rpm-3.0.6 RPM using the new rpm
binary (does that even make sense?)
I was then able to do everything with the new rpm except rebuild SRPMs,
where i kept getting an ugly "Unable to open temp file" error (as root).
I did some digging at groups.google.com and found that for whatever
reason, the {%var}/tmp variable wasn't being set properly. I tried to
get it set correctly in the rpm macros file, but no dice. I ended up
hardcoding it as /var/rpm and all was good.
So, everything appears to be back to normal (or as close to normal as it
ever will be in llama-land). Now back to trying to build KDE-2.2.2 from
SRPMs.
--- Jim Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might want to upgrade to rpm 3.0.6. This is compatible(AFAIK) to
> rpm 4.x
> and might fix your problems. What it'll take to do this, I'm not
> sure.
>
> Jim
>
> On Wednesday, December 05, 2001 4:33, Net Llama wrote:
> > I just finished upgrading glibc to glibc-2.2.4. All appears to be
> fine
> > (no glibc trainwrecks), except some very disturbing behavior.
> >
> > I was rebuilding a SRPM, and it completed without a hitch. So I go
> to
> > install the newly generated RPM, as i've done countless times
> before,
> > and i get this cryptic error:
> > rpm: ../iconv/skeleton.c:302: gconv: Assertion `outbufstart ==
> ((void
> > *)0)' failed.
> > Aborted
> >
> > I did some research and it appears that this error is a result of
> some
> > incompatibilities between the locale-data in glibc-2.2.x and
> rpm-3.x.
> > Unfortunately, no one had a solution (other than to not use RPMs
> > anymore).
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
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