Bug 83479

Summary:	Binary data in error message.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Ralph Loader <suckfish>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Ralph Loader 2003-02-04 19:55:47 UTC

Description of problem:

rpm prints error messages with binary data. (Not sure if rpm or db4 is at fault).

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

rpm-4.2-0.65
db4-4.0.14-17

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. As non-root, try to remove some installed rpms:

rpm -e XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.2.99.4-20030129.4 2>&1|less

Actual results:

Some of the error message contains binary data.  Cut'n'paste from less:

rpmdb: c_del: attempt to modify a read-only tree
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "<CB><FC>uj-4<CC>xO<A7>#<9B>F<83>88^^" from
Filemd5s

Expected results:

The error messages should only contain text.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-02-04 20:47:54 UTC

You've got bigger problems than binary data in error message.

Try
    rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
    rpm --rebuilddb -vv
and repeating whatever caused the above.

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