-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:33:05 -0800, Mike McMullen wrote:
> I have a server that I did a fresh install of 7.3 on. I then proceeded > to use up2date to get all the update rpms installed. I had the system > running fine for a week but this morning I get all kinds of craziness. > > "ls" and many other dynamically linked programs give a segmentation > fault. However, "dir" will run. "more" faults but "less" doesn't. > > The list goes on and on. > > Thinking I had bad memory, I swapped memory with memory that was in > a working server. Now when I reboot, I get a message "unable to umount > initrd" and then the system starts crapping all over itself with > messages from the shell scripts dying on commands they can't execute. > > The only things that have changed on the system in a week was the > installation of the latest IMAP rpm and redhat-gcc3.1-i386 package. > > Amazingly, the server eventually comes up but is pretty crippled. I > can bring up the two NICs with ifconfig but most services croak when > you try and start them. > > Could the gcc package have corrupted some system shared libraries? > The IMAP package seems to work ok even in the systems current state. > > Any ideas on what is happening here? Or better yet, how to resolve it? File-system corruption, hard disk drive going bad? Try verifying your installed packages with rpm, especially those which don't seem to work without errors anymore. E.g. rpm -V fileutils Or these commands which are good for verifying all your installed rpms: # su -l root # rpm -qa | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt # less rpm-Va.txt - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FNdX0iMVcrivHFQRApEGAJ0a4Egu23zTQASFZ9aJm4ei4IKbPgCcCJNQ /8FkXXZ9Jk54WDt9ZHEFsTw= =Ct+r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
