Bug 41995

Summary: rpm seg faults when installing files with a non existant username
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Andrew Howell <andrew>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.1   
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Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andrew Howell 2001-05-23 16:27:33 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I have a rpm I built myself and I forgot to add %defattr(-,root,root) to
the %files section of
the spec file so when it built the files they inherited my uid and gid.
With the RH 6.2 rpm binary it
installs these files fine. With RH 7.1's rpm it seg faults trying to
install when the user doesn't exist. If I install the rpm from a kickstart
postinstall script. If I do it from the command line after
the box has built is just displays a warning that the user doesn't exist.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -i http://blah/package from inside a kickstart post install script
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  rpm seg faults

Expected Results:  It should install with a warning

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-23 16:32:50 UTC 
A pointer to your binary package, please, so's I can try to reproduce
the segfault. I suspect that your segfault may actually be due to other
causes: Have you been using the Ximian installer? If so, then please
send me a pointer to a tarball of your database
	cd /var/lib
	tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb.tar.gz rpm
and I'll tell you what to do.
Comment 2 Andrew Howell 2001-05-23 16:40:39 UTC 
Created attachment 19410 [details]
RSA ACE/Agent for Linux rpm
Comment 3 Andrew Howell 2001-05-23 16:43:46 UTC 
Okay I just attached the rpm in question. No I haven't used the ximian
installer. The box doesn't have X
even installed on it. It's a fresh RH 7.1 box with not much installed built
using kickstart.

I've worked around the bug by specificing the default attributes in the spec
file (which I should have done
before), but rpm shouldn't crash still :)
Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2001-05-23 17:57:24 UTC 
rpm-4.0.3 does not segfault when installing/erasing your package.
Comment 5 Andrew Howell 2001-05-24 10:04:42 UTC 
So when is 4.0.3 going to be included in RH 7.1 updates?