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strange slack 9.1 problem

well, i just installed slack 9.1 and i got some problems..

all appears to work fine.. but when i tried to install something (prozgui) i executed rpm and it return segmentation fault :\ i tryied with others rpms and i got the same, then i tried downloading static build, and it crashes too :(

on slack 9.0 all worked fine.. so i have no idea whats going on :( anyone have an idea?

ps:sorry for my bad english

why did u use rpms ?:Pengy:

Re: strange slack 9.1 problem

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Originally posted by Little devil
well, i just installed slack 9.1 and i got some problems..

all appears to work fine.. but when i tried to install something (prozgui) i executed rpm and it return segmentation fault :\ i tryied with others rpms and i got the same, then i tried downloading static build, and it crashes too :(

on slack 9.0 all worked fine.. so i have no idea whats going on :( anyone have an idea?

ps:sorry for my bad english

Slackware does not usually use RPM's, make use of pkginstall or swaret

hint: rpm2tgz

then install using installpkg :)

im using rpm2tgz to install all.. but i wanted to know why the rpm do that :(

thx for answer

There was an anouncement about RPM in the changelog of Slackware 9.1. Maybe your problem is related as well.
http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=i386

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patches/packages/rpm-4.2.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to rpm-4.2.1.
This fixes problems with the version of RPM shipped with Slackware 9.1.
After the release, it was discovered that attempting to install packages
with RPM would cause it to segfault, and that recompiling that version of
RPM produced a broken binary unable to build SRPMs (this had been
discovered previously, and was the reason RPM had been compiled statically;
unfortunately the static binary quit working for unknown reasons).
The 4.1.patches/packages/rpm-4.2.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to rpm-4.2.1.
This fixes problems with the version of RPM shipped with Slackware 9.1.
After the release, it was discovered that attempting to install packages
with RPM would cause it to segfault, and that recompiling that version of
RPM produced a broken binary unable to build SRPMs (this had been
discovered previously, and was the reason RPM had been compiled statically;
unfortunately the static binary quit working for unknown reasons).
The 4.1.x series seems to have the same problems with SRPM building not
working (an incompatibility with glibc-2.3.2, perhaps?), but the 4.2.1
version has been tested and found to work.x series seems to have the same problems with SRPM building not
working (an incompatibility with glibc-2.3.2, perhaps?), but the 4.2.1
version has been tested and found to work.