Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 192623
changed md5sum of pnmdepth binary
Last modified: 2013-07-02 19:15:59 EDT
Description of problem: I've checked the integrity of my system using rpm -V and there was a problem with the pnmdepth binary: Package netpbm-progs-10.33-1.fc5: SM5....T. /usr/bin/pnmdepth Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC5, netpbm-progs-10.33-1.fc5 How reproducible: Unknown - I don't know, after which update the problem occured. Please note that his problem occured on all of my FC5 machines, so that a hard disc error cannot be the source of this problem After I removed the package and re-installed it, the binary is correct.
Update: It seems, that this file was changed again - again on several hosts. So there must be some entity which alters this file sometimes. If a script or a cronjob does changes in a binary file then this problem should be taken seriously. ;-)
There was a bug in netpbm-10.32 such that it contained dangling symlink affecting pnmdepth because of a typo in the upstream Makefile. The pnmdepth utility was replaced by a symlink to pamdepth correctly since 10.33. The only thing that I can guess from the top of my head is that for some reason you have installed both 10.32 and 10.33 netpbms on your system that conflict -> might make rpm -V fail. What does rpm -q netpbm say?
No, there is only one package installed: root@:~# rpm -q netpbm netpbm-10.33-1.fc5 root@:~# Where can I get the previous version of netpbm-progs to compare the binaries of the pnmdepth program (I've saved the file with the wrong md5 sum)?
I've found an explanation for this problem: prelink changes the link to a regular file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193175 Because I'm not sure whether this is a problem of prelink or netpbm-progs, I'll wait for some response from the prelink people until I'll close this bug.
Ok, closing this one as I don't see any rpm -V problems any more with the current rawhide netpbm-progs.