Bug 87805

Summary: rpm segfaults when installing RPMs
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component: rpmAssignee: Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Chris Ricker 2003-04-02 19:17:52 UTC 
This is on a fresh everything install of RHL 9, + Jakub's potential glibc errata
(glibc-2.3.2-22.9)

When I try to install wine RPMs (wine- and wine-devel-20020605-2.i386.rpm from
RHL 8.0, rebuilt on RHL 9), I get a segmentation fault

As a starting place, I'll attach the strace.  The RPMs are probably too big to
attach, but I can put 'em on the web if you'd like to download them
Comment 1 Chris Ricker 2003-04-02 19:19:50 UTC 
Created attachment 90848 [details]
strace of rpm segfaulting
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-02 23:41:27 UTC 
I can't tell much from the strace, other than that you
are segfaulting soon after trying to retrieve a public key
to verify a package.

Some mixture of the following usually fixes:
    a) rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
    a) rpm --rebuilddb -vv
    b) erasing and reimporting the public key

SO which of those fixed the problem?

If not fixed, please include output of whatever
operation is segfaulting with -vv added.
Comment 3 Chris Ricker 2003-04-03 16:16:01 UTC 
rpmdb --rebuilddb (which I did for other reasons; see Bug 87812) seems to have
fixed this....
Comment 4 Chris Ricker 2003-04-03 16:17:17 UTC 
Oh, I actually did both (a) and (b)

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpmdb --rebuilddb
Comment 5 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-03 16:37:30 UTC 
OK, looks solved.