Bug 30940 – memory alloc(2554682469 bytes) returned NULL.

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Bug 30940 - memory alloc(2554682469 bytes) returned NULL.

Summary:	memory alloc(2554682469 bytes) returned NULL.

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.0tc
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2001-03-07 04:50 EST by Need Real Name
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:32 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-03-07 04:51:03 EST
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Description Need Real Name 2001-03-07 04:50:55 EST

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rpm -i "any rpm file" shows message "memory alloc(2554682469 bytes) 
returned NULL" and can't install. rpm --rebuilddb shows the same. I use 
RedHat7.1RC1. After I install the java-1.1.8.rpm from SuSe7.1, I got this 
problem.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.rpm -i "a package"
2.rpm -qa
3.any rpm command
	

Actual Results:  I can't install, upgrade,nor delete a package

Expected Results:  Should be able to install,upgrade and delete a package

I have installed java1.1.8.rpm from SuSe 7.1 CDROM

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-03-08 14:14:42 EST

This is a package problem, not an rpm problem. rpm is reading the two ints from
the package metadata that describe the size of the metadata, and, for reasons
known only to the person who created the package, the values are wrong,
possibly because of a little-endian/big-endian ordering problem.

Comment 2 Need Real Name 2001-04-27 03:55:58 EDT

I have encountered a similar problem though my malloc goes from 28 bytes to 
286261256 bytes.  I encounter this message:

[root@shadow /root]# rpm -qa
... (lists *nearly* all my rpms)
memory alloc (286261256 bytes) returned NULL.
[root@shadow /root]#

I am able to install packages, receive information/filelists of installed 
packages (rpm -qi/rpm -qil), and uninstalled packages.  My only problem is a 
query of all package names installed.  This occured while using kpackage and 
kpackage refuses to start after this occured.

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