Description of problem: Prelink segfaults when run from cron daily Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): prelink-0.3.10-1 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. /usr/sbin/prelink -av -mR -f 2. 3. Actual results: prelink segvs Expected results: prelink should run to completion Additional info: See bugs #200160, #147763, #196941, #198811 - this seems to be a reocurring problem. running under gdb gives the following: ... Prelinking /usr/lib/rpm/rpmdb_load Prelinking /usr/lib/libgcj.so.7rh.0.0 /usr/sbin/prelink: /usr/lib/libgcj.so.7rh.0.0: Symbol section index outside of section numbers Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0808ce43 in elf_getdata () (gdb) bt #0 0x0808ce43 in elf_getdata () #1 0x08069760 in close_dso_1 (dso=0x824f060) at dso.c:1623 #2 0x0806984f in close_dso (dso=0x824f060) at dso.c:1656 #3 0x0804d75d in prelink_ent (ent=0x815f4a0) at doit.c:250 #4 0x0804d579 in prelink_ent (ent=0x81de698) at doit.c:85 #5 0x0804dc45 in prelink_all () at doit.c:269 #6 0x080598a5 in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfb23564) at main.c:409 #7 0x080923b8 in __libc_start_main () #8 0x08048131 in _start ()
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Go ahead and close this out - this seems to be one of those on again, off again issues. If it resurfaces I'll reopen the bug.
Thank for your update.