Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 29385
Segmentation fault in rpm 4.0-4 in transaction.c # 802
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:31:45 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010126 I've been trying to use RedCarpet from Ximian for the past week. However, it never succeeds to install the packages it downloads because rpm crashes on most of the rpm's it downloads. This also happens with the rpm-4.0-4 it downloads, so I can not upgrade to a working rpm. Therefor I have compiled rpm myself from the source rpm-4.0-4 src rpm. Also this crashes, however, now I can use gdb. It crashes in transaction.c at line 802 because otherStates = 0. Note that approximately half of the rpm files I downloaded recently do not crash and half of them do. I have no clue why otherStates ==0, but if you need more information, or you can not reproduce, I can play some more with gdb. greetings Marco Bosch Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.download for instance GConf-0.12-100_helix_2001020808.i386.rpm2. 2.su (become root) 3.rpm -Uvvh GConf-0.12-100_helix_2001020808.i386.rpm Actual Results: Segmentation fault Expected Results: No crash, but installation of the package output just before segfault D: installing binary packages D: getting list of mounted filesystems D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Group create mode=0x42 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Triggername create mode=0x42
Um, try the rpm-4.0.2 packages at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.2 as there are several known miscompilations of rpm with gcc-2.96 Meanwhile, you probably have packages in your database that are missing the file states tag. That will cause segfaults, but never should have happened, and how you got into that state needs to be understood. I can tell you how to work around, but I need to be on the same sources as you to tell you what will be needed.
It's not really a big problem, I will reinstall Red Hat 7.0 and try to see if it works ok. However, I've done this already yesterday, and the only packages I've installed afterwards where the one that Red Carpet tried to download and install. And the first one is rpm-4.0-4. And sometime after that, I got into problems... Marco
This problem is both caused and fixed by rpm-4.0.2. Install that version.