Bug 41793

Summary: RPM database corrupted because of Ximian GNOME installation
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Eetu Huisman <eh>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Eetu Huisman 2001-05-22 05:54:33 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I installed Ximian GNOME 1.4 and now when I try to run any graphical rpm
maintenance tool, I get the following error message:

[program name here]: header.c:511: headerLoad: Assertion `rdlen == dl'
failed.

How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Well, try to install Ximian GNOME and Nautilus and then update some
packages and...
	

Actual Results:  Described above...

Expected Results:  Well, everything should run smoothly, of course

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-22 16:17:54 UTC 
Please attach a pointer to a tarball of your database
	cd /var/lib
	tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb.tar.gz
and I'll take a look. Thanks.
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-23 15:12:29 UTC 
OK, record #662 is damaged. I'll attach a toy program to delete an
entry from a Berkeley DB, edit 662 into the top, compile with
        cc -o t38454 t38454.c -ldb-3.1
(from memory, unchecked, see bugzilla #38454), run the progem, and
then do a --rebuilddb -vv to recreate the inverted lists.

Meanwhile, yet another assertion has been removed from header.c, I
should have a version of rpm that ignores bad records on ftp.rpm.org
Real Soon, will then move on to insturmenting the record deletion.

Off to #38454

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38454 ***