I was updating openssh on ones from ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/rpm/RH70/ When I issued the command rpm -Uvh /tmp/ss/openssh-2.5.1p1-1.i386.rpm /tmp/ss/openssh-askpass-2.5.1p1-1.i386.rpm /tmp/ss/openssh-askpass-gnome-2.5.1p1-1.i386.rpm /tmp/ss/openssh-clients-2.5.1p1-1.i386.rpm /tmp/ss/openssh-server-2.5.1p1-1.i386.rpm rpm-4.0-4 crashed and dumped core. the gdb trace is below: This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)... Core was generated by `rpm -Uvh /tmp/ss/openssh-2.5.1p1-1.i386.rpm /tmp/ss/openssh-askpass-2.5.1p1-1.i'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x81186ad in ?? () (gdb) bt #0 0x81186ad in ?? () #1 0x811ab25 in ?? () #2 0x806cf24 in ?? () #3 0x806d06a in ?? () #4 0x8070a24 in ?? () #5 0x8067974 in ?? () #6 0x804b29a in ?? () #7 0x8101801 in ?? () (gdb) The debugging symbols in rpm are stripped, but you can probably re-link rpm with debugging symbols.
Second time rpm -Uvh --force ... everything went through OK. It was a problem only first time when I was upgrading openssh-2.3.0p1-4
Try rpm-4.0.2 packages at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.2
Verified as broken in rpm-4.0 (with openssh packages mentioned). Verfiied as fixed in rpm-4.0.2.