Bug 582
| Summary: | rpm crashes and dumps core when removing XFree86-devel | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | yye |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | yye |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 1998-12-28 16:06:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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You need to do rpm --rebuilddb after any/every rpm segfault. Otherwise, the database can be inconsistent leading to "weirdo" rpm seg faults such as you are seeing. Do "rpm --rebuilddb" and try your remove again. If the problem persists, please reopen this bug. |
I have XFree86-devel-3.3.2.3-25 installed with my RH 5.2 box, and I tried to update the package to 3.3.3-1, but I can't seem to remove the old package: # rpm -e XFree86-devel package (null) contains no files Segmentation fault Strangely, I was able to upgrade the package on another RH 5.2 system. The version of RPM on both systems is rpm-2.5.5-5.2. These are the last few lines from the strace output of "rpm -Uvh XFree86-devel-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm": I can provide the full strace output and the core dump if you need it. lseek(4, 4092504, SEEK_SET) = 4092504 select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {5, 0}) read(4, "\0\0\0+", 4) = 4 select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {5, 0}) read(4, "\0\0\33\34", 4) = 4 brk(0) = 0x81aa000 brk(0x81ac000) = 0x81ac000 select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {5, 0}) read(4, "\0\0\0d\0\0\0\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\10"..., 7628) = 7628 lseek(4, 7329944, SEEK_SET) = 7329944 select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {5, 0}) read(4, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 4 select(5, [4], NULL, NULL, {5, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {5, 0}) read(4, "\0\0\0\0", 4) = 4 write(2, "package (null) contains no files"..., 32package (null) contains no files) = 32 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++