Bug 78773

Summary: up2date not executing..file format not recognized
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Kyle <k194355p>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List <satellite-qa-list>
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Version: 8.0CC: gafton, michael, mihai.ibanescu
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Hardware: i686   
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Description Kyle 2002-11-29 16:00:14 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When i click on the up2date icon it does not execute or if i type in the cmd it
does not work...when i do a backtrace gdb up2date i get this message:

[root@localhost root]# gdb up2date
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.2.1-4)
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"..."/usr/sbin/up2date": not in
executable format: File format not recognized



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click up2date icon/or type cmd up2date
2.
3.
	

Additional info:

this is the second time this has happened. i would have to reinstall up2date.
Comment 1 Michael Lee Yohe 2002-12-01 19:25:31 UTC 
The error you are receiving is because gdb attempts to grab information from the
object code of a binary file.  "up2date" is not a binary application - it is
actually a Python script:

$ file /usr/sbin/up2date
/usr/sbin/up2date: a /usr/bin/python -u script text executable

Instead you could provide the strace output of the execution:

# strace /usr/sbin/up2date 2> output_up2date.stderr

Attach output_up2date.stderr to this bug.
Comment 2 Adrian Likins 2002-12-13 22:21:03 UTC 
How does up2date fail if ran from the command line?

Do you get error messages? if so, what are they?
Comment 3 Kyle 2003-02-08 17:23:12 UTC 
Created attachment 89945 [details]
up2date stderr
Comment 4 Kyle 2003-02-08 18:44:59 UTC 
apparently all you need to do is rm -f /var/lib/rpm__db*...conflict w/ the rpm 
bug...closed
Comment 5 Kyle 2003-02-08 19:11:35 UTC 
check that....its rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*