Bug 89519
Summary: | rpm hangs followed by rpm segfault on -qa, --rebuildb, | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Val Schmidt <vschmidt> |
Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 8.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-04-28 17:41:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Val Schmidt
2003-04-23 18:49:52 UTC
Can you give me a pointer (i.e. URL, attachments won't work) to a tarball of your database cd /var/lib tar xzvf /tmp/rpmdb-89519.tar.gz rpm and I'll take a look? Thanks. Yes. /var/lib/rpm tar'd and zipped and can be found at www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~vschmidt/rpmdb.tar.gz OK, your database looks fine, all header signatures verify, so something else is going on. The strace indicates segfault before reaching main in rpm, which seems to point at something other than rpm as the cause. Do any rpm commads work? Try rpm -V glibc kernel possibly other commands as well, and tell me what works or not, please. It turns out the cause of this didn't have anything to do with rpm directly. Early on, rpm (4.1.1) had hung and had to be killed. It appears that some, but not all, of the glib* rpms were updated during that process. This seems to have caused the ensuing segmentation faults with rpm and (other processes on the system it would turn out). I force updated the glib* rpms from the RH8.0 basic distro with rpm -Uvh --force glib* The segmentation faults are gone. OF NOTE: There were two errors when executing the above (in a trigger script and a post install script). Although this may bite me in the bottom, at first look, they appear to be inconsequential. To be sure, I've executed an rpm - qa --info > rpmlonglist, and when I have time I'll try to figure out if my forced install has broken any dependancies. Thanks for everyone's help. -Val |