ADSM-L

Re: rpm, Linux & TSM

2003-12-17 16:10:00
Subject: Re: rpm, Linux & TSM
From: Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:08:51 -0500
...
>fd->magic == 0xbeefdead' failed.
>
>TSM Support tell me this is an rpm issue. ...

Most likely is.  For interest, here's some background from my notes:

0xdeadbeef                              Some subsystems pre-populate allocated
                                        memory with the hexadecimal string
                                        0xdeadbeef (this 32-bit hex value is a
                                        data processing affectation) so as to be
                                        able to detect that an application has
                                        failed to initialize an acquired subset
                                        with binary zeroes. Landing on a
                                        halfword boundary can obviously lead to
                                        getting variant "0xbeefdead".

You didn't say how you obtained the rpm: the method may have resulted in its
corruption.  Be sure to perform FTP downloads of programs in Binary mode.
Use appropriate levels of unzip as required, etc.

  Richard Sims, http://people.bu.edu/rbs

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