Description of problem: When yum is run when low on virtual memory, glibc fairly often reports that it detected a corrupt doubly linked list. I have no idea if the problem is in python, or rpmlib, or whatever, so I assign to python. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Everything is yesterday's (2007-12-10) rawhide, I've seen this happening in pre-F8 times. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "yum install" of a package with >10 new dependencies on @base installation with 128M of physical RAM and no swap. (Well, maybe some ulimit would also do...) Actual results: ... Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: giflib ####################### [ 1/13] error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory Installing: glib ####################### [ 2/13] error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory Installing: gtk+ ####################### [ 3/13] error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory Installing: imlib ####################### [ 4/13] error: Couldn't fork %post: Cannot allocate memory *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: corrupted double-linked list: 0x0bcecb90 *** Additional info: It seems like some unsuccessful malloc is not checked for a return value or whatever. I'll try to get a core dump next time it happens. (Note that the program didn't crash, so I'll have to obtain with by sending it a SIGABRT).
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Seeing this now on Fedora 11: /etc/cron.daily/0yum.cron: /usr/lib/yum-plugins/fedorakmod.py:25: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated from sets import Set *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: corrupted double-linked list: 0x0c8d3240 *** /etc/cron.daily/0yum.cron: line 120: 9724 Killed /usr/bin/yum $YUM_PARAMETER -R $RANDOMWAIT -e ${ERROR_LEVEL:-0} -d ${DEBUG_LEVEL:-0} -y update yum Freeing read locks for locker 0xc8: 9724/3078359248 Freeing read locks for locker 0xca: 9724/3078359248 /usr/lib/yum-plugins/fedorakmod.py:25: DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated from sets import Set error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 8701 tag[5]: BAD, tag 251 type -822083580 offset 44 count 1 error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 8701 tag[5]: BAD, tag 251 type -822083580 offset 44 count 1
This is still a bug. Observed on 2016-10-07 in CentOS 6.8 [root@Droplet1 ~]# rpm --version RPM version 4.8.0 [root@Droplet1 ~]# uname -a Linux Droplet1.Redacted.com 2.6.32-431.1.2.0.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 13 13:06:13 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux