Bug 8605

Summary:	Segmentation fault with rpm --erase --allmatches
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	vgeloven
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2000-01-19 16:54:44 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description vgeloven 2000-01-19 15:27:35 UTC

Hi,

I installed xemacs-21.1.4-2.i386.rpm and now rpm tells me with rpm -q
xemacs that I have:

[root@ibb0197 /root]# rpm -q xemacs
xemacs-info-21.1.4-2
xemacs-21.1.4-2
xemacs-21.1.4-2

So I do an uninstall:

[root@ibb0197 /root]# rpm --erase --allmatches xemacs
Segmentation fault

It doesn't leave a core file. And xemacs-info isn't even installed:

[root@ibb0197 /root]# rpm -q xemacs-info
package xemacs-info is not installed

According to gnorpm I have three installation of xemacs-21.1.4-2 (none with
"info" in the name). If I try to uninstall the packages with gnorpm it will
crash.

If I do rpm -V xemacs I get:

missing    /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.4/info/cl.info
missing    /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.4/info/cl.info-1
missing    /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.4/info/cl.info-2
...(a lot of files)
missing    /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info/mh-e.info-4
missing    /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/info/pcl-cvs.info
missing    /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-pac
(then te CPU is 100% for rpm for a while and then it exits)

If I look if these files exist with ls, the do exist, and:

[root@ibb0197 etc]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/xemacs-21.1.4/info/dir
xemacs-21.1.4-2
xemacs-21.1.4-2
xemacs-21.1.4-2

What should I do? I'm always very carefull with installing rpm packages and
have lot's of experince with it. Is there another way of getting rid of
there entries in the rpm database?

Thanks,

Sander

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2000-01-19 15:40:59 UTC

What version of rpm? You might want to upgrade to rpm-3.0.3 (ftp.rpm.org)
or rpm-3.0.4 from Raw Hide. And, make sure that you do "rpm --rebuilddb"
after any/every segfault in rpm, as you may have segfaults from spurious
data in the database from a previoud segfault).

Comment 2 vgeloven 2000-01-19 16:55:59 UTC

upgrade to rpm 3.0.4-0.31, rpm --rebuilddb and rpm --erase xemacs did the trick