Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 47166
core dump with rpm -Uvh
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:34:25 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre17 i686) Description of problem: If I Install or Upgrade the package ntp (downloaded it from 3 different locations and every time the same), I get a core dump..., I already installed new binary rpm's, doesn';t help, also did a rpm --rebuilddb How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -Uvh ntp*rpm 2. 3. Actual Results: a core file package NOT installed http://ramses.smeyers.be/core Expected Results: the package to be installed Additional info:
A pointer (i.e. URL, bugzilla attachments won't work) to a copy of your database cd /var/lib tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb.tar.gz rpm please.
http://ramses.smeyers.be/rpmdb.tar.gz also interessting, when I delete the entire db, and do a rpm --initdb, I still got the problem...
Hmmm, I had assumed that your problem was due to getting corrupted data from the database, that's not the case AFAICT. What version of rpm are you using? I've just put out a final test release for rpm-4.0.3-0.57 at http://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/test-4.0.3 Can rpm-4.0.3-0.57 install your ntp package? Otherwise please give me a pointer to the ntp package that has the problem, and I'll take a look. Thanks.
Please reopen if a "rpm --rebuild" with rpm-4.0.3-0.57 does not fix your problem.
I appeared to have fixed the problem It doesnt matter what package I use of rpm, whatever kind of version, and even whatever package I'm installing, I get it continuously, but why? well, I managed to trace it: <tfm> (gdb) r <tfm> Starting program: /tmp/recover/build/bin/rpm -Uvh /tmp/ntp-4.0.99k-15.i386.rpm --nodeps --force <tfm> Preparing... ########################################### [100%] <tfm> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. <tfm> 0x4055309a in ?? () <tfm> (gdb) <tfm> #21 0x08129876 in __getpwnam_r (name=0x816afb9 "root", resbuf=0x81a4684, <tfm> buffer=0x81df9e8 "\bI\031\b\bI\031\b/share/doc/ntp-4.0.99k/pic/oncore_utplus <tfm> big.gif", buflen=1024, result=0xbffff558) at ../nss/getXXbyYY_r.c:200 <tfm> #22 0x0812944b in getpwnam (name=0x816afb9 "root") at ../nss/getXXbyYY.c:131 <tfm> #23 0x0805d073 in installBinaryPackage (ts=0x81b9be8, fd=0x81ad938, <tfm> h=0x81c4fa8, pkgKey=0xbffffc4b, actions=0x81c3898, sharedList=0x0) <tfm> at install.c:1044 <tfm> #24 0x08070be9 in rpmRunTransactions (ts=0x81b9be8, <tfm> notify=0x8066b3c <showProgress>, notifyData=0x36, okProbs=0x0, <tfm> newProbs=0xbffff928, transFlags=0, ignoreSet=116) at transaction.c:1860 <tfm> #25 0x080678eb in rpmInstall (rootdir=0x8166bac "/", fileArgv=0x81a76d8, <tfm> transFlags=0, interfaceFlags=38, probFilter=116, relocations=0x0) <tfm> at rpminstall.c:460 <tfm> #26 0x0804b1b7 in main (argc=5, argv=0xbffffb24) at rpm.c:1146 <tfm> #27 0x08101a32 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8049840 <main>, argc=5, <tfm> ubp_av=0xbffffb24, init=0x80480b4 <_init>, fini=0x8163be0 <_fini>, <tfm> rtld_fini=0, stack_end=0xbffffb1c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129 <tfm> (gdb) so what was the problems: in /etc/nsswitch.conf, I had: passwd: ldap files nisplus nis I replaced it with: passwd: files nisplus nis ldap and now it works perfectly Still I find that it is WRONG to core dump on this, this is a bug and it should work...... btw, my passwd file is completely blank except for the root account
Agreed no core dump. Off to LDAP for resolution (sorry Nalin :-)
Actually, I know this one already (thank you Nalin!). Make sure that nscd is running.
hmmm, it wasn't running, now it is but a) this should be mentioned ;) b) core dumping for this one ? real problem I had was that rpm really didn;t give me ANY info, even not in a trivial tool like strace, I had to compille rpm on my own, so I had all the debugging info, and then I could do a decent gdb on it, mja, anyway, my m,ailserver is back rpm compatible and that is what counts tx for the help btw ;)