Bug 80196

Description of problem:
Bit of a newbie at this. Rpm has become eratic and doesn't work any more. I've 
had to kill it because it has hung while installing If you do rpm -qa the 
example now on my screen has popped up a box saying "Application gnome-terminal 
has crashed due to a fatal error (Segmentation Fault). Clicking start system 
ppackages also causes errors that range from an immediate re-boot to 
termination of all running shells, to  an error box similar to the above 
popping up, its not consistent. I'm reading the page at 
http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ where Jeff Johnson says that if rpm -qa 
gives segfault here I should submit an entry on bugzilla,  and he'll tell me 
what to do. and so I am!
Its worth noting that rpm --rebuilddb also gives a segfault, but db_verify 
Packages completes silently. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm 4.1

How reproducible:
Every time on this machine now. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -qa
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Actual results:
Packages are listed out as expected, but after about 200 or more the 
Application gnome-terminal box appears. Clicking on this will close the shell, 
or all openb shells, and may freeze up the computer or cause a spontabious 
reboot. Occasionally a small grey error box appears here too. 

Expected results:
Command should run to completion

Additional info: