Description of problem: /usr/sbin/prelink -v -mR /usr/bin/john fails with the following error message: prelink: dso.c:1465: recompute_nonalloc_offsets: Assertion `dso->shdr[i - 1].sh_offset < dso->ehdr.e_shoff' failed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): prelink-0.3.6-3 How reproducible: prelink -v /usr/bin/john Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run prelink -v /usr/bin/john as root Actual results: Assertion failure / seg fault. Expected results: Successful execution. Additional info: I installed prelink-debuginfo. Here is a backtrace from gdb: #0 0x0809442d in abort () #1 0x08090392 in __assert_fail () #2 0x08068cc9 in recompute_nonalloc_offsets (dso=0x8e60680) at dso.c:1465 #3 0x08052025 in prelink_exec (info=0xbfc11628) at exec.c:1052 #4 0x0805a683 in prelink (dso=0x8e60680, ent=0x8d13da0) at prelink.c:916 #5 0x0804d652 in prelink_ent (ent=0x8d13da0) at doit.c:148 #6 0x0804d8b5 in prelink_all () at doit.c:269 #7 0x08059455 in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfc16a14) at main.c:409 #8 0x0808e2f5 in __libc_start_main () #9 0x08048131 in _start () I get the same error message, with, e.g., /usr/sbin/prelink -v /usr/bin/john, so it doesn't seem to be specific to any particular command line argument. I tried 'yum erase john; yum install john' and got the same error. This is with the package john-1.7.0.2-3.fc5.rf from the dries repository; sha1sum /usr/bin/john yields the digest "297bbc5875ca821bfc5e31c75d7970e13a0d47c8". (I discovered this when /etc/cron.daily/prelink failed and emailed me with the error message.)
*** Bug 194588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Should be fixed by prelink-0.3.8-1 in rawhide.