Bug 54729 - rpm --rebuilddb fails w/ segflt even after upgrade to 4.0.3
Summary: rpm --rebuilddb fails w/ segflt even after upgrade to 4.0.3
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-17 05:01 UTC by Bennett Feitell
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-11-16 00:04:13 UTC
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Description Bennett Feitell 2001-10-17 05:01:16 UTC 
Description of Problem:
rpm --rebuilddb fails with a segfault even after upgrading to rpm 4.0.3
which had to be installed via rpm2cpio.

Gnorpm and kpackage are, likewise, broken.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.0.3-1.03.i386.rpm

How Reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.	rpm --rebuilddb (as root)  
2. 
3. 

Actual Results:
[root@bfeitell /root]# rpm --rebuilddb
error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #200 retrieved, skipping.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)



Expected Results:


Additional Information:
Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-11-16 00:04:06 UTC 
A pointer (i.e. URL, attachments won't work) to a copy of your database
please
	cd /var/lib
	tar czf /tmp/rpmdb-54729.tar.gz rpm
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-11-19 18:29:04 UTC 
Fixed in private e-mail.
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