Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 41319
rpm core dumps
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:33:19 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686) Description of problem: After update to RH7.1---> rpm seg faults when doing 'rpm --erase'. In some cases, I ran rpm --rebuilddb and I could then remove the package, but in some cases (e.g. below) this does not help: [root@marmot /root]# rpm -q gnome-core gnome-core-1.2.4-16 [root@marmot /root]# rpm -e gnome-core Segmentation fault (core dumped) "rpm -q rpm" gives rpm-4.0-4 "which rpm" gives /bin/rpm and "rpm --version" gives RPM version 4.0 I'd give you some more information, but given that rpm is 'stripped' there's not much more to be had. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm --erase gnome-core 2. 3. Actual Results: Segmentation fault (core dumped) Additional info:
You appear not to have upgraded to rpm-4.0.2, and you will need to do that. Where did you get gnome-core from, ximian? At this poing you will probably have to install rpm using rpm2cpio or from tar ball at ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x
Loaded rpm 4.0.2 from rpm.org It gave stupid messages about 'db1' until I did an rpm --rebuilddb It now seems functional. Note, the broken rpm, and all the .rpms it core dumped on, came from RH7.1 -- sounds like RH needs an update to 7.1 -Steve Ashe (steve.ashe@minolta-qms.com)