Bug 89080

Summary:	Multiple errors with rpm when querying database
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Cristian Candet <ccris>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	ccris
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://proxy.integrare.ro/rpm/rpm-db.tgz
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Description Cristian Candet 2003-04-17 11:13:37 UTC

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Description of problem:
rpm crashes with "segmentation fault" when querying packages installed.
Additionally I get a "error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #124 retrieved,
skipping" on every rpm operation. Also up2date -u crashes with the same errors.
Also installing and deinstalling packages doesn't seem to be working properly.
The problem appeared when in the middle of an up2date i tried to deinstall some
packages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.0.4-7x

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpm -qa
2.rpm -qa <package name>
3.rpm -i/-e <package name>
4. up2date -u

Actual Results:  Step 1 gives a "segmentation fault"
Step 2 results in a "error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #124 retrieved,
skipping" with the corect output being displayed.
Step 3 gives a "package is not installed" after giving no error on installing
the package.
Step 4 give the first two steps' errors together with up2date crashing.

Additional info:

I already tried moving the "Packages" file and doing db_dump and db_load into a
new file and the problem persisted.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-17 14:23:08 UTC

Hmmm, the URL you gave to your database tar ball is not resolving.
Could you check for typose, etc? Thanks.

Comment 2 Cristian Candet 2003-04-17 14:49:39 UTC

Corrected the URL. If this doesn't work either (which would be strange), try
http://213.157.164.98/rpm/rpm-db.tgz.

Comment 3 Cristian Candet 2003-04-17 16:46:43 UTC

Almost forgot. When accessing the URL use username/password: "redhat".

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-17 17:31:23 UTC

OK, got it, thanks.

Doing --rebuilddb -vv (with rpm-4.3, any version newer than rpm-4.1 can/will
fix) showed 2 damaged headers:

error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     121 region trailer: BAD, tag 15519
type 470089728 offset 0 count 131586

error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     124 region trailer: BAD, tag 1048576
type 14592 offset -75520 count 16128

I'll put a tarball of your fixed (by deleting) Packages at
    ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/rpmdb-89080-FIX.tar.gz
in about 15 minutes.

Download and install the fix by doing
    cd /var/lib
    mv rpm/Packages rpm/Packages-ORIG2
    tar xzvf rpmdb-89080-FIX.tar.gz
    rpm --rebuilddb -vv
Verify the fix by doing
    rpm -qavv

Reopen this bug if you still have problems.

Comment 5 Cristian Candet 2003-04-18 10:30:59 UTC

Worked ok. Thank you.