Bug 172854

Summary:	up2date crashes when there are corrupted (?) files in /var/spool/up2date
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Michael Stella <michael.stella>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Clifford Perry <cperry>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list>
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Version:	4.0	CC:	rhn-bugs
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Description Michael Stella 2005-11-10 16:10:45 UTC

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Description of problem:
When trying to up2date I got:

	Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-4...

	Fetching rpm headers...
	*** glibc detected *** realloc(): invalid pointer: 0x0a17faec
***
	Aborted

The pointer address changes each time (0x0a17faec)...

In the /var/log/up2date I get :

	[Wed Nov  9 14:28:20 2005] up2date updating login info
	[Wed Nov  9 14:28:20 2005] up2date logging into up2date server
	[Wed Nov  9 14:28:24 2005] up2date successfully retrieved authentication token from up2date server
	[Wed Nov  9 14:28:24 2005] up2date availablePackageList from network
	[Wed Nov  9 14:28:24 2005] up2date Unable to import repomd support so repomd support will not be available

I mv'ed all the file's in /var/spool/up2date and tried updating again - and it worked as expected.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up2date-4.4.50-4

How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Havent tried - but I assume if I mv the files back to /var/spool/up2date 
2.It may crash again. I still have the files.
3.
  

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Comment 1 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-04-12 00:22:01 UTC

User bnackash's account has been closed

Comment 3 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 13:19:53 UTC

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