Bug 52064

Summary:	rpm dumps core on any command (pretty much identical to Bug #47708)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <matthias>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	www.schoener.net/rpmdb.tar.gz
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Description Need Real Name 2001-08-20 09:09:16 UTC

Description of Problem:

Just like #47708: I installed a package using Kpackage, following that, my
database must have gotten trashed. Neither kpackage, nor rpm will work. rpm
-rebuilddb seg faults, as does rpm -qa (following the qt-designer package).
Attempt to install rpm 4.0.3 failed similarly. I attached a pointer to my
zipped /var/lib/rpm directory as an URL.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.0.2 on RH 7.1

How Reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enter any rpm command
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:
segmentation fault

Expected Results:


Additional Information:
contained in the archive...


Thanks for your help...

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-20 15:13:57 UTC

Try installing rpm-4.0.3 using rpm2cpio
	mkdir /var/tmp/xxx
	cd /var/tmp/xxx
	rpm2cpio rpm-4.0.3-*.rpm | cpio -dim
	find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
	tar cf - . | (cd /; tar xvf -)
and then doing "rpm --rebuilddb -vv"

Don't forget to reinstall the rpm packages afetrwards so that
the entries in the database reflect what is on the file system.

Reopen this bug if the above does not bring you joy.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-08-20 16:35:18 UTC

Thanks, this fixed it. At least rpm works fine, now. As for kpackage, it 
refuses to launch:

[root@Tweety download]# kpackage
kpackage: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librpm.so.0: 
undefined symbol: fpHashFunction
[root@Tweety download]#

If you have any thoughts on how I might get that front-end fixed, I'd love to 
hear them.

Many thanks for the fix.

Matthias

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-20 17:11:54 UTC

Yup. Either downgrade rpm to rpm-4.0.2 or upgrade kpackage to rpm-4.0.3.