On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 12:27, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 12:19, Joseph Tate wrote:
>
> > Seg Faults can also happen when you try to use the wrong version of
> > glibc, or kernel. up2date should handle that properly though. If you
> > can boot off a rescue disk, and then chroot to your system, run rpm -A |
> > grep kernel and rpm -A | grep glibc.
>
> If it's a problem with glibc, doing "chroot /mnt/sysimage" will not
> work, because that will use the messed up glibc on the system.
>
> Instead, use the --root argument to rpm. This will use the working rpm
> and glibc binaries from the rescue environment to run rpm, but will
> check the databases and file system of the installed system. For
> example:
>
> rpm --root /mnt/sysimage-q --queryformat
> '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH}\n' glibc kernel
> (that should all be on one line)
> Sorry, minor typo there; there's a space needed between "sysimage" and "-q" Joseph: quick question, what does the -A argument to rpm do? Rpm doesn't seem to have that option on my system (RHL 9). Did you mean "rpm -qa" ? --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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