Originally posted by: Teej42

There was a weird issue with installation of gettext that can be reproduced.  I did the following:
 

$ sudo rpm -Uvh gettext-0.19.8.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm
Preparing...                          ################################# [100%]
Updating / installing...
   1:gettext-0.19.8.1-1               ################################# [ 50%]
Cleaning up / removing...
   2:gettext-0.17-8                   ################################# [100%]
Could not load program /usr/opt/freeware/bin/rpm:
        Dependent module /opt/freeware/lib/libintl.a(libintl.so.8) could not be loaded.
        Member libintl.so.8 is not found in archive
rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: get_rpm_inst_root_list() returned an unexpected result.
rpm_share: 0645-007 ATTENTION: update_inst_root() returned an unexpected result.
$

After this point, RPM will not behave, throwing the same error for the libintl.a file.  I also see the following:

[/opt/freeware/lib] $ ls -al *intl*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     system       374612 Dec 20 2010  libintl.a
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     system       374612 Dec 20 2010  libintl.a.savgettext

Only way to resolve is to find a separate server, and do the following:

$ rpm2cpio gettext-0.19.8.1-1.aix6.1.ppc.rpm | cpio -dimuv

And dig out the libintl.a for 32 bit, back up the existing libintl.a, and park the file from gettext RPM to this directory (/opt/freeware/lib), and RPM is back to working order.

Is this a known behavior, and can it be addressed by updating the RPM accordingly?  Thanks.

Originally posted by: AyappanP

This should not have happened in the first place. Not sure what went wrong. The gettext-0.19.8.1 rpm ships the required library libintl.so.8. 

But i see you had gettext-0.17.8 (which is not from AIX Toolbox) prior to the update. So some incompatibility created this problem i guess. 

Originally posted by: Teej42

Is it possible that the libintl.a was locked during the RPM installation, since it affects how RPM behaves?

Originally posted by: AyappanP

Not really. We have tested this.

What rpm version you had in your machine when this happened ? And AIX level ?

Originally posted by: Teej42

$ oslevel -s
7100-05-01-1731

I do not have the rpm -qa output at that time.  Really don't want to roll the server back after all of the efforts we put on it thus far, Current rpm -qa:

$ rpm -qa
TWeagent-8.6.0.1-0.ppc
conserver-8.1.7-2.ppc
gnutls-2.12.20-1.ppc
libgcrypt-1.5.0-1.ppc
libgpg-error-1.10-3.ppc
libiconv-1.14-2.ppc
libtasn1-3.3-1.ppc
lzo-2.06-2.ppc
nettle-2.7-2.ppc
p11-kit-0.14-2.ppc
pkg-config-0.25-3.ppc
rsync-3.0.6-1.ppc
teagent-realtime-0.9-1.ppc
wget-1.9.1-1.ppc
libffi-3.2.1-1.ppc
libgcc-6.3.0-1.ppc
mpfr-3.1.2-3.ppc
gcc-cpp-6.3.0-1.ppc
libstdc++-devel-6.3.0-1.ppc
gcc-gfortran-6.3.0-1.ppc
bzip2-1.0.6-2.ppc
expat-2.2.4-1.ppc
glib2-2.56.1-2.ppc
ncurses-6.1-1.ppc
libgomp-6.3.0-1.ppc
xz-libs-5.2.3-1.ppc
zlib-1.2.11-1.ppc
lua-5.3.4-1.ppc
openldap-2.4.45-3.ppc
httpd-2.4.34-1.ppc
sqlite-3.23.0-1.ppc
readline-7.0-5.ppc
intltool-0.51.0-2.noarch
python-2.7.15-1.ppc
python-setuptools-0.9.8-2.noarch
python-pip-10.0.1-1.noarch
python-backports_abc-0.5-1.noarch
python-pyasn1-0.2.3-1.noarch
python-dateutil-2.6.0-1.noarch
python-xml-0.8.4-1.ppc
krb5-libs-1.16.1-2.ppc
python-passlib-1.7.1-1.noarch
curl-7.9.3-2.ppc
expect-5.42.1-3.ppc
gnutls-devel-2.12.20-1.ppc
libgcrypt-devel-1.5.0-1.ppc
libgpg-error-devel-1.10-3.ppc
libtasn1-devel-3.3-1.ppc
lzo-devel-2.06-2.ppc
openCIMOM-0.8-1.noarch
pci.df1000fa-1-191A5.noarch
tcl-8.4.7-3.ppc
tk-8.4.7-3.ppc
AIX-rpm-7.1.4.1-11.ppc
libffi-devel-3.2.1-1.ppc
gcc-6.3.0-1.ppc
libmpc-1.0.3-1.ppc
libstdc++-6.3.0-1.ppc
gcc-c++-6.3.0-1.ppc
bash-4.4-3.ppc
db-6.2.32-1.ppc
gdbm-1.12-1.ppc
gmp-6.1.2-1.ppc
info-6.3-1.ppc
libunistring-0.9.9-1.ppc
zlib-devel-1.2.11-1.ppc
libxml2-2.9.5-1.ppc
cyrus-sasl-2.1.26-3.ppc
pcre-8.33-1.ppc
mod_ssl-2.4.34-1.ppc
sqlite-doc-3.23.0-1.ppc
gettext-0.19.8.1-1.ppc
perl-5.28.0-1.ppc
python-docs-2.7.15-1.ppc
libxml2-python-2.9.5-1.ppc
python-babel-0.9.6-1.noarch
python-six-1.10.0-1.noarch
python-cryptography-1.8.1-1.noarch
python-decorator-4.1.2-1.noarch
python-pycrypto-2.6.1-1.ppc
krb5-pkinit-openssl-1.16.1-2.ppc
make-4.2.1-4.ppc