Bug 110853

Summary: rpm segmentation fault
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Bill Richards <wildbill>
Component: rpmAssignee: Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Bill Richards 2003-11-24 21:28:55 UTC
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Description of problem:
I've searched through bugzilla and cannot find a resolution for the 
problem below:

I am getting segementation faults from 'rpm -qa'  I've followed the 
steps for recovery of the rpmdb and they always fail with a 
segmentation fault.

'rpm -qa -vv' received the following:
<<<normal ouput deleted>>>
gcc-3.2.2-3mdk
xmame-base-0.58.2-1mdk
mdk-menu-messages-9.1-0.7mdk
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #1071 retrieved, skipping.
scli-0.2.9-3mdk
libaspell10-0.33.7.1-7mdk
sgml-common-0.6.3-7mdk
wpo2000-help-minimal-2000.03.13.12.01-1
Segmentation fault




Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.0.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpm -qa -vv
2.
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Actual Results:  segmentation fault

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-12-27 20:38:06 UTC
If you give me a ptr (i.e. URL) to a tarball of /var/lib/rpm,
I'll see if I can fix and mail you the result.

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2005-04-19 18:37:32 UTC
Closing due to inactivity.  If this issue still occurs with current releases,
please reopen and set the release in which you've encountered the problem.