[oclug] rpm seg fault

Dana Webber dana at dunrobin.dyn.dhs.org
Sat Jun 14 20:05:30 EDT 2003


On Friday 13 June 2003 22:44, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
> My first thought was perhaps the ViaVoice rpm was not good,
> but you seem to have covered that possibility in your tests above
> (checksig).  It's still possible that it's a bad rpm, with a
> checksum that matches the bad contents (ie, rpm not "corrupted",
> but bad stuff packed into a well-packaged rpm).  Maybe one of the
> install scripts is segfaulting, not rpm.

That could be it. The rpm I have apparently works for RH7.1, but I have RH8.
Probably some library has changed. It looks like ViaVoice for linux has 
disappeared from IBM's web site. They never released the source.

They still support the Windows vers though.

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Dana Webber
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