Re: Segmentation Fault (11) ??? on Red Hat 7.3

[gebser]

Bobby Kurtz at 21:25 (UTC-0800) on 10 Feb 2003 said:

= Hello,
= 
= I am having problems with emacs on my Red Hat 7.3 box(webserver).  I
= have had this box installed in the current fashion since about
= September.  I have been running the latest version of emacs on it
= since then with no problems.  Last week I started getting Error
= segmentation fault (11) when trying to run emacs.  This was no matter
= what user I was logged in as.  I tried removing and then reinstalling
= emacs using the lastest RPM last Friday. It worked after I did this. 
= This morning I started to get the segmenation fault again.  I tried
= removing emacs again, then when I try to reinstall emacs i get:
= 
= rpm -ivh emacs-21.2-2.i386.rpm
= Preparing...               
= ########################################### [100%]
=    1:emacs                  warning:
= /etc/X11/applnk/Applications/emacs.desktop created as
= /etc/X11/applnk/Applications/emacs.desktop.rpmnew
= warning: /etc/skel/.emacs created as /etc/skel/.emacs.rpmnew
= error: unpacking of archive failed on file
= /usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/emacs-lisp/bytecomp.elc;3e487d09: cpio: MD5
= sum mismatch

The line above would indicate that "bytecomp.elc" is corrupt.  Try to 
download emacs-21.2-2.i386.rpm again.  Prior to installing, run

rpm --checksig emacs-21.2-2.i386.rpm

to verify that the new package is installable.


hth,
ken


= 
= Anyone know my best course of action for this?  I am scared to
= manually remove the files the rpm started to create.
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