Segmentation Fault when updating yum

[Marco4497]

Hi,

We've got a CentOS 5.0 64Bit box, running DirectAdmin 1.40.1, last week i was just running updates as usual, when a pear update wouldn't install. I tried to solve this issue by re-installing pear.. this didn't work, and it took the whole server with it.. MySQL got installed for some reason, only the datafiles were present.

I tried to re-install some packages, but this didn't work because yum is broken, it says 'Segmentation Fault' when i try to do *anything* with yum..

When i modify /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo, and comment out the 'base' repo, yum works again.. but ofcourse can't find any packages.

The CentOS-Base.repo is just like a 'normal' one should be, no changes have been made from the original..

Now, we've got the MySQL Server back up and running, but yum (and some other services like exim) are still broken, does anyone have an idea about how to solve this?


Regards,
Marco.

 

[NoBaloney2]

Not without logging in and doing some forensic work on your server; we (some of us, anyway) are systems administrators, not magicians.

If you need help quickly and are willing to pay for it, then you might want to contact me or one of the other contract administrators who post on these forums. To contact me for support, best call or write, using the contact information below in my siglines. PMs to may can take more than a day for response but email and phone calls get responded to quickly.

Jeff

 

[elmetronomo]

library libz.so.1.2.5 causes yum to crash

Dear Jeff, Marco,

The problem turned out to be a dependency of yum. Yum doesn't like to work with libz.so.1.2.5, it should use libz.so.1.2.3 (the right version is installed by DA! ).

Cheers,

Jan Martijn
FraJa WeB