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Description of problem:
Failed rpm installation of staroffice.  After this, could not run up2date
or install
rpms manually with rpm -i.
Attempted rpm --rebuilddb  which almost works, but hangs before finishing

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -rebuilddb -vv  (the -vv to watch progress)
2.---or rpm -i  --- causes segmentation fault
3.
	

Actual Results:  The end of the rebuild db -vv looks like
this----------------


D: adding "wmakerconf" to Name index.
D: adding 57 entries to Basenames index.
D: adding "User Interface/Desktops" to Group index.
D: adding 29 entries to Requirename index.
D: adding 1 entries to Providename index.
D:   +++        812 xfig-3.2.3c-8
D: adding "xfig" to Name index.
D: adding 824 entries to Basenames index.
D: adding "Applications/Multimedia" to Group index.
D: adding 24 entries to Requirename index.
D: adding 1 entries to Providename index.
D:   +++        813 XFree86-ISO8859-7-75dpi-fonts-1.0-9
D: adding "XFree86-ISO8859-7-75dpi-fonts" to Name index.
D: adding 109 entries to Basenames index.
D: adding "User Interface/X" to Group index.
D: adding 6 entries to Requirename index.
D: adding 1 entries to Providename index.
D:   +++        814 XFree86-Xvfb-4.0.3-5
D: adding "XFree86-Xvfb" to Name index.
D: adding 2 entries to Basenames index.
D: adding "User Interface/X Hardware Support" to Group index.
D: adding 15 entries to Requirename index.
D: adding 1 entries to Providename index.
D:   +++        815 xsysinfo-1.7-3


D: adding "xsysinfo" to Name index.
D: adding 5 entries to Basenames index.
D: adding "Applications/System" to Group index.
D: adding 14 entries to Requirename index.
D: adding 1 entries to Providename index.

Expected Results:  up2date and rpm -i previously worked.

Additional info:

This sounds like other database problems as described by Jeff Jones.
Can you help?