Bug 2268

Summary:	samba-1.9.18p10-5.i386.rpm segfaults rpm
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	jherzog
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.2
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	1999-04-26 21:45:49 UTC	Type:	---
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Description jherzog 1999-04-19 14:54:47 UTC

I was using samba-1.9.18p5-1.i386.rpm and running along
smoothly when I decided to update to
samba-1.9.18p10-5.i386.rpm. After downloading the rpm from
your site and upgrading (via "rpm -Uvh"), rpm segfaulted
after the last hash mark was printed. Now rpm thinks both
packages are installed:
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[root@threshold RPMS]# rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-1.9.18p10-5
samba-1.9.18p5-1
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and I can't uninstall either:
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[root@threshold RPMS]# rpm -e samba-1.9.18p10-5
Segmentation fault
[root@threshold RPMS]# rpm -e samba-1.9.18p5-1
Segmentation fault
[root@threshold RPMS]# rpm -e --test samba-1.9.18p5-1
Segmentation fault
[root@threshold RPMS]# rpm -e --test samba-1.9.18p10-5
Segmentation fault
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And this is all after I rebuilt the database.

I'm not a registered user, so I don't expect much help on
this, but I thought you'd like to know.

Thanks.

Comment 1 jherzog 1999-04-19 15:00:59 UTC

Sorry I didn't include this before:
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[root@threshold RPMS]# rpm -e -vv samba-1.9.18p10-5
D: counting packages to uninstall
D: opening database in //var/lib/rpm/
D: found 1 packages to uninstall
D: uninstalling record number 3593560
Segmentation fault
[root@threshold RPMS]# rpm -e -vv samba-1.9.18p5-1
D: counting packages to uninstall
D: opening database in //var/lib/rpm/
D: found 1 packages to uninstall
D: uninstalling record number 4693592
Segmentation fault

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-04-19 15:08:59 UTC

do rpm -e --notriggers samba

Comment 3 jherzog 1999-04-19 15:13:59 UTC

Okay:
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[root@threshold RPMS]# rpm -e --notriggers samba-1.9.18p10-5
cannot remove /var/log/samba - directory not empty
cannot remove /etc/codepages - directory not empty
[root@threshold RPMS]# rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-1.9.18p5-1
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Ah, so it was a script that was segfaulting. Interesting.

Comment 4 jherzog 1999-04-19 23:04:59 UTC

Well, I was able to uninstall samba-1.9.18p5-1.i386.rpm using "rpm -e
--notriggers" in combination with "rpm -q --scripts" and running the
scripts by hand. I could then install samba-1.9.18p10-5.i386.rpm the
same way. I don't know where the segfault came from, but it was
probably actually some command in the scripts that had the error. Why
doesn't rpm handle things like this gracefully? It would seem a
trivial thing for rpm to tell me which part of the script had a
problem... but this is a issue with rpm, not redhat per se.

Anyway, thanks for the help.

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 1999-04-26 21:45:59 UTC

It didn't handle it because of a bug in RPM, which I
believe was fixed in a later version.