bogofilter-static-1.0.0-1 RPM problem (CentOS 3.6)

[Chris Wilkes]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 01:12:36PM -0500, bogo at escom.com wrote:
> ESCOM supports customers on a variety of platforms including RH 7.1, RH 9, 
> RHEL, Fedora 3, and we're testing CentOS 3.6 now and probably 4.x later on.
> When I tried to install bogofilter-static-1.0.0-1 on CentOS 3.6 I got the
> following error:
> 
>   # rpm -ivh bogofilter-static-1.0.0-1.i586.rpm
>   error: bogofilter-static-1.0.0-1.i586.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed: region trailer: BAD, tag 15872 type 2047 offset 20480 count 4096
>   error: bogofilter-static-1.0.0-1.i586.rpm cannot be installed
> 
> BTW, the same RPM installs and runs fine on Fedora 3, but that is the only 
> platform that has worked for me.  In separate messages to David Relson, 
> I documented that this RPM installs on RH9, but bogoutil dumps core when 
> trying to create wordlist.db from a text dump, e.g.,
> 
>   cat wordlist.txt | bogoutil -l wordlist.db
> 
> I note that CentOS is running rpm-4.2.3-24_nonptl, which would appear to be
> newer than the RH 9 rpm-4.2-0.69.  My guess is that this is some sort of
> incompatibility with the CentOS rpm executable.

What processor is this on?  Also what version of DB4?

I ask as had some NPTL problems on an AMD K6 with the default db4 rpm,
issue (poorly) outlined here:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.bogofilter.general/8305
and see this bug related to NPTL (not sure if this is your issue):
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91933

Chris