Bug 46469

Summary: memory alloc (3475134059 bytes) returned NULL" on some RPM operations
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Dominik Geisel <listing>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 7.1CC: jcorrego
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://download.babbotec.org/rpmdb.tar.gz
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Description Dominik Geisel 2001-06-28 22:22:10 UTC
as written in the mailing list, I cannot "rpm -qa" any more because I get

 the error "memory alloc (3475134059 bytes) returned NULL"





How Reproducible:happens always





Steps to Reproduce:

1. enter rpm -qa

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Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-06-30 18:17:33 UTC
FIxed in rpm-4.0.3-0.55. Meanwhile, your rpm/Packages and my rebuilddb
log are at
	ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/rpmdb3-46469-FIX.tar.gz
Do the following
	cd /var/lib/rpm
	mv Packages Package-SAVE
	cd ..
	tar xzvf rpmdb3-46469-FIX.tar.gz
	rpm --rebuilddb -vv

Comment 2 Juan Carlos Orrego 2001-08-06 21:35:56 UTC
I have the same problem : memory alloc (1768337276 bytes) returned NULL, when
trying to make any rpm operation (rpm --rebuilddb, kpackage, rpm -qa). i try to
find the newest package (rpm-4.0.3-0.55) and i couldnt. what shoul i do now?
there is anyone fixing Packeges or what?
Thanks