I updated my x86 machine day before yesterday, and I noticed two things. The clamav user and group was deleted, and not recreated, and when the makewhatis ran, I got a page full of "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" entries. What gives with the makewhatis and clamav? Was clamav removed from the software? I encountered no errors when the transaction check and transactions were run.
Hints?
On 7/23/06, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
I updated my x86 machine day before yesterday, and I noticed two things. The clamav user and group was deleted, and not recreated, and when the makewhatis ran, I got a page full of "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" entries. What gives with the makewhatis and clamav? Was clamav removed from the software? I encountered no errors when the transaction check and transactions were run.
You're likely mixing repositories and running into packages in multiple repos but packaged differently. There are a couple yum plugins designed to prevent this.
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 7/23/06, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
I updated my x86 machine day before yesterday, and I noticed two things. The clamav user and group was deleted, and not recreated, and when the makewhatis ran, I got a page full of "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" entries. What gives with the makewhatis and clamav? Was clamav removed from the software? I encountered no errors when the transaction check and transactions were run.
You're likely mixing repositories and running into packages in multiple repos but packaged differently. There are a couple yum plugins designed to prevent this.
Jim, it so appears that is what happened. Didn't realize it till it was too late, and read a thread about the clamav problem. Now seems I can't get things back running.
Thanks..
On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 12:54 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
On 7/23/06, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
I updated my x86 machine day before yesterday, and I noticed two things. The clamav user and group was deleted, and not recreated, and when the makewhatis ran, I got a page full of "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" entries. What gives with the makewhatis and clamav? Was clamav removed from the software? I encountered no errors when the transaction check and transactions were run.
You're likely mixing repositories and running into packages in multiple repos but packaged differently. There are a couple yum plugins designed to prevent this.
Not arguing about it, but I have done my best to avoid that. Have plugins enabled, =0 or =1 in each repo, includepkgs and exclude used everywhere I can ID the need.
This just FYI: I could have made a mistake as you suggest, but I would need to do some deep checking (with md5 sum check disabled :-) to concede it is my problem.
On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 09:44 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:
I updated my x86 machine day before yesterday, and I noticed two things. The clamav user and group was deleted, and not recreated, and when the makewhatis ran, I got a page full of "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" entries.
I can't address clamav (Hello Clamav! :-) but I also got the makewhatis broken pipe. Haven't had time to pursue it. I just presumed (for the moment) it was a side-effect of the same thing (whatever it was) that left all the "...#prelink#..." files in /usr/lib, /lib/ /bin, ... et al. This workstation has been very unstable since those appeared. My current suspect is an interrupted "rpm --verify" which "un- prelinks" (into a temp?) to check the md5 sum and/or a failure during a yum update post (?) script that failed in prelink. And then I compounded it in my ignorance by trying to manually run a full pass with only a quick perusal (and little thought of possible omissions and consequences). Naturally, it seg faulted partway through.
Seg fault is my familiar friend now.
What gives with the makewhatis and clamav? Was clamav
I only post here so you see some things that I think *may* be involved and so the guru-ati might have enough clues to shed a cold light on the problem.
removed from the software? I encountered no errors when the transaction check and transactions were run.
Hints?
Wish I could offer more, but you lucked out this time! ;-)
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