Bug 41089

Summary: RPM seg fault
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Paul Johnson <pauljohn>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Paul JOhnson's rpm database, as Jeff Johnson asked none

Description Paul Johnson 2001-05-17 12:15:49 UTC 
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Description of problem:
RPM mysteriously started seg faulting. 

[pauljohn@dv209s44 SPECS]$ rpm -ba swarm-hdf5-jdk-RH7-2.1.69.spec
--target=i686 &> buildswarm69.txt
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[pauljohn@dv209s44 SPECS]$ rpm -ba swarm-hdf5-jdk-RH7-2.1.69.spec
--target=i686      
Building target platforms: i686
Building for target i686
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[pauljohn@dv209s44 SPECS]$ rpm -ba
swarm-hdf5-jdk-RH7-2.1.69.spec               
Segmentation fault (core dumped)


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I had this same seg fault problem on a RedHat 7.0 system, and because of
it I installed RH 7.1 in a clean partition.
2. RPM worked fine, I thought I had escaped the problem.
3. After about one month, how RH 7.1 has the same problem.

In the RPM list, Jeff Johnson said "post a bugzilla report and I'll figure
it out.  Well, here it is!"
	

Actual Results:  RPM doesn't work anymore

Expected Results:  ?

Additional info:

I can submit the rpm database in an attachment
Comment 1 Paul Johnson 2001-05-17 12:33:39 UTC 
I tried to attach the rpm database, but got a cgi error from the server:Software
error:

DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-01691: unable to extend lob segment
BUGZILLA.SYS_LOB0000003839C00008$$ by 715 in tablespace ENG_DATA02 (DBD ERROR:
OCILobTrim/OCILobWrite/LOB refetch) at
/mnt/raid0/bugzilla/bugzilla/createattachment.cgi
line 124. 

So I've taken the RPM data and put it on my web page

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/linux/rpmdb.tar.gz
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-20 13:37:57 UTC 
This is a build problem, you can disable rpmdb access during
build by adding --nodeps.

Can you send a pointer to the src rpm you are building so I can
try to reproduce?
Comment 3 Paul Johnson 2001-05-20 15:19:41 UTC 
Dear Jeff:

I can't build the srpm, but I did package the source code, icon, and spec file
and put them here for you to see:

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.x_RPMSforRH7/swarm-2.1.69.tar.gz


I tried building with --nodeps. Got no progress.

$ rpm -ba swarm-hdf5-jdk-RH7-2.1.69.spec --target=i686 --nodeps
Building target platforms: i686
Building for target i686
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

After all this, I find RPM can still do a --rebuild without any errors and rpm
-qa still seems to work fine.  I have installed one RPM package from somebody
else and that was OK too.
Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-20 17:14:48 UTC 
OK, I've reproduced the segfault, same problem as bugzilla #36641. AFAIK, the
problem is fixed in rpm-4.0.3-0.6, availiable at
ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.3
probably through Raw Hide as well.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 36641 ***