Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 32939
rpm 4.0.2-6x causes Seg fault on all operations
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:20 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686) When I try to use rpm or up2date to do anything it returns with Segmentation fault (core dumped) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.ran up2date and got the new rpm packages 2.submitted a bug report when 4.0.2 wouldn't run 3.downloaded the rpm-python package when it became available 4.rpm -Uvh on rpm-python 5.rpm now fails all commands Actual Results: rpm will execute at all !! it simply responds with: Segmentation fault (core dumped) (I don't know how to debug a core.) Expected Results: I read the bug reports and installed rpm-python as instructed from the ftp site but now nothing works !! This would be fine if it was any other package but now I can't do anything with packages since rpm is hosed. I consider this high priority since rpm is broke.
What exactly is failing? rpm -qa rpm --initdb rpm -Uvv what? Meanwhile, try doing "rpm --rebuilddb"
jbj, Thank you for your quick response. I should have been more explicit. rpm commands that work and give expected results: rpm -qa rpm -qi (on any rpm package) rpm --initdb rpm --version rpm commands that produce a Segmentation fault rpm -i (on any package) rpm -Uvh (on anything) rpm --rebuilddb rpm -Uvv (on any package) the last command prints out all the dependency checks, opens the db index Should I go and grab rpm-3.0.4 and then do a --force? I am afraid this won't work bacause inbetween installing rpm-4.0.2 and rpm-python-4.0.2 a few days later I ran rpm --rebuilddb successfully. and then prints out "Preparing packages for installation" and then fails
I'm assuming that you are using rpm-3.0.x, rpm-4.0.x, on Red Hat 6.x. OK, if --rebuilddb is segfaulting, then the file /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm is damaged somehow. Hmm, you didn't perchance try Ximian and/or Nautilus recently did you? Packages installed by those systems trigger a bug in rpm (yes the bug is in rpm). Try doing rpm --rebuilddb -vv Just before the segfault you may see the package that is causing the problem. Try erasing that package and doing another --rebuilddb. Did that work?
Hmmm, that should have been "not rpm-4.0.x", but I see from the SUmmary that you're trying to do that. Are you using db1 (you have var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm) or db3 (you have Packages).? If you are already using db3, there's little reason to try to go back to rpm-3.0.x. If you are using db3, what does db_verify /var/lib/rpm/Packages have to say?
jbj, Thanks for responding again. I had enough with my box, I had to do some consulting today and couldn't wait to use rpm again. I had installed oracle on it and that corrupted some files at some point so it was due for a rebuild anyways. Yes, I use helix-gnome or whatever it is called, so maybe that caused the problems with rpm. Anyways, I have stayed up real late last night and rebuilt and everything seems fine. Oracle is working, rpm is working, and I have Ximian on as well. By the way when is 7.1 coming out? Thanks so much for you help !!
I had this same problem. I upgraded to 4.0.2 and rpm was segfaulting all over the place. Even --rebuilddb failed. The fix was to copy an old rpm 3.x binary to the machine and run --rebuilddb with it. This is what happened: [root@tmp4 lib]# /root/rpm --rebuilddb record number 9194776 in database is bad -- skipping. I immediately did a --rebuilddb with the 4.0.2 rpm. I was then able to use the 4.0.2 rpm without a problem. So the new 4.0.2 is not as robust as the old 3.x one in handling database problems in the db1 dbs is what it looks like to me. Paul