Bug 49882

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Description of problem:
After an upgrade from redhat 6.2 to redhat 7.1, rpm segfaults on
installation of new packages, after the pre-install script stage of
installation.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -Uvh anypackagename.i386.rpm

	

Actual Results:  Here is one sample output:

[root@hedwig /root]# rpm -Uvvh setuptool-1.7-2.i386.rpm 
D: ============== setuptool-1.7-2.i386.rpm
D: Expected size:         9584 = lead(96)+sigs(149)+pad(3)+data(9336)
D:   Actual size:         9584
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Name joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42
D:      added binary package [0]
D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages
D: ========== +++ setuptool-1.7-2
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x42
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B
rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) = 3.0.5-1
D:   YES    A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) = 4.0-1
D:  Requires: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1       YES (rpmlib
provides)
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Providename joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename create mode=0x42
D:  Requires: ld-linux.so.2                                 YES (db
provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6                                     YES (db
provides)
D:  Requires: libdl.so.2                                    YES (db
provides)
D:  Requires: libm.so.6                                     YES (db
provides)
D:  Requires: libnewt.so.0.50                               YES (db
provides)
D:  Requires: libslang.so.1                                 YES (db
provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)                          YES (db
provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)                        YES (db
provides)
D:   NO     A rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1    B
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1
D:   YES    A rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1    B
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1
D:  Requires: rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1        YES (rpmlib
provides)
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname create mode=0x42
D: ========== recording tsort relations
D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, depth)
D:    0   0   1   0  setuptool-1.7-2
D: installing binary packages
D: getting list of mounted filesystems
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Basenames joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Group joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Group create mode=0x42
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Requirename joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Requirename create mode=0x42
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Triggername joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Triggername create mode=0x42
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Dirnames joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Dirnames create mode=0x42
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Requireversion create mode=0x42
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Provideversion joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Provideversion create mode=0x42
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Installtid joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Installtid create mode=0x42
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Removetid joinenv
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Removetid create mode=0x42
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
D: Expected size:         9584 = lead(96)+sigs(149)+pad(3)+data(9336)
D:   Actual size:         9584
D:   install: setuptool-1.7-2 has 7 files, test = 0
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
[root@hedwig /root]# 


Expected Results:  progress bar showing installation of package, followed
by "Done."

Additional info:

I first inquired about this problem on the rpm-list, and was asked to file
this bug report by Jeff Johnson, along with a link to my rpm database. 
Some of the other things we have already tried are in the 'RPM upgrade
problem' thread, beginning on July 24, 2001.