Bug 67176

Summary:	rpm --rebuilddb segfaults on possibly corrupt db
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Sunil Vemuri <vemuri>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.media.mit.edu/~vemuri/rpmdb.tar.gz
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Description Sunil Vemuri 2002-06-20 17:37:05 UTC

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Description of problem:
when attempting to use rpm, I've been consistently getting errors.
Upon trying "rpm --rebuilddb", it also segfaults (after about a minute of 
activity).
I then attempted to check the db by following the instructions available at:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/87/2002/2/0/7971730/
That failed too, with the final suggestion of submitting a bug report



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. please see "actual results" section
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  $ sudo rpm -Uvh gcc-cross-sa1100-2.95.2-0.i386.rpm 
dbiTagsInit: unrecognized tag name: "Installtid" ignored
dbiTagsInit: unrecognized tag name: "Sha1header" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Upon trying "rpm --rebuilddb", it also segfaults (after about a minute of 
activity):

$ sudo rpm --rebuilddb
dbiTagsInit: unrecognized tag name: "Installtid" ignored
dbiTagsInit: unrecognized tag name: "Sha1header" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I then attempted to check the db by following the instructions available at:
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/87/2002/2/0/7971730/

In step 1, 'db_verify' succeeded
In step 2, 'rpm -qa' succeeds except it gives the following warnings:
$ rpm -qa | less
dbiTagsInit: unrecognized tag name: "Installtid" ignored
dbiTagsInit: unrecognized tag name: "Sha1header" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "verify" ignored
dbiSetConfig: unrecognized db option: "tmpdir" ignored
chkconfig-1.2.16-1
bash-2.04-11
...

The instructions suggested skipping to step 5: 'rpm --rebuilddb' ... which 
still fails.

As per the suggestions in that email, I am submitting a bugzilla report with a 
URL of the rpmdb.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-06-20 17:52:51 UTC

Your configuration is newer than your executable. Check
/usr/lib/rpm/macros, use the correct default for
your executable. I'd suggest rpm-4.0.4 from Red Hat 7.3.

Reopen this bug with a pointer (i.e. URL, attachments won't work)
to a tarball of your database
	cd /var/lib
	tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb-67176.tar.gz rpm
if you need help with the segfault.