Bug 107925 – rpm -qa and rpm --rebuilddb both segfault

Bug 107925 - rpm -qa and rpm --rebuilddb both segfault

Summary:	rpm -qa and rpm --rebuilddb both segfault

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
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Reported:	2003-10-24 12:17 EDT by Mike Frisch
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:58 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2003-12-11 08:46:46 EST
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Description Mike Frisch 2003-10-24 12:17:22 EDT

Description of problem:

rpm -qa and rpm --rebuilddb both segfault.

Many messages output like:

error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     601 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key
ID db42a60e

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

rpm-4.1.1-1.8x

(Installed based on the advice found at www.rpm.org)

How reproducible:

Happens consistently.

Steps to Reproduce:

Unfortunately, I am unsure how the database corruption occurred, but it was
working flawlessly until it stopped working.

I attempted to fix the problem by installing the newer version of rpm from
www.rpm.org, but to no avail.

Comment 1 Mike Frisch 2003-10-24 12:23:26 EDT

You can get a copy of my /var/lib/rpm from
http://www.isurfer.ca/~mfrisch/rpmdb.tar.gz

Comment 2 Brad Cox 2003-11-20 20:29:57 EST

Happens here too 
 
[bcox@linux lib]$ sudo rpm --rebuilddb 
error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h#     900 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, 
key ID 66534c2b 
---repeated ~200 times --- 
Segmentation fault 
 
Vanilla RH8.0 system, updated via up2date and yum. No recent crashes until 
this. 100% reproducible.

Comment 3 Brad Cox 2003-11-20 20:32:37 EST

Oh yes, this symptom is widely reported (google rpmdbNexIterator skipping). 
Suggested cause is DSA certificate expiration. Someone suggested 
rpm -i /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0/RPM-GPG-KEY, but that doesn't work 
either. rpm barfs on non-key header text in that file.

Comment 4 Brad Cox 2003-11-29 12:27:24 EST

Problem was fixed by

rm /var/lib/rpm/PublicKeys
rpmdb --rebuilddb

No idea what caused it. Possibly used rpm -i /usr/share/whatever/it/was/*GPG* 
when rpm --import was intended.

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