From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-6 i686) Description of problem: The exact set of installed packages seems to matter, since this only happens on one of my machines, but it happens at exactly the same point every time. I install RedHat 7.1 from CD-ROM without Gnome, then cd to a directory containing glibc-2.2.4-19 errata, then type "rpm -Fvh *" and it says "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" This also happens if you install just the glibc* packages, or if you install everything but them and then install them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install RedHat 7.1 from CD-ROM without Gnome 2. rpm -Fvh * [in a directory containing the glibc-2.2.4-19 errata] 3. Actual Results: It says Preparing, gets to 33%, and says "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" Expected Results: It should install Additional info: This is the output of "rpm -qa": indexhtml-7.1-2 setup-2.4.7-1 statserial-1.1-20 kudzu-devel-0.98.10-1 pump-devel-0.8.11-1 cdparanoia-alpha9.7-7 cracklib-2.7-8 dip-3.3.7o-22 file-3.33-1 glib-1.2.9-1 iputils-20001110-1 libtermcap-2.0.8-26 mailx-8.1.1-20 bash-2.04-21 hotplug-2001_02_14-15 MAKEDEV-3.1.0-14 ncurses-5.2-8 diffutils-2.7-21 findutils-4.1.6-2 ash-0.3.7-1 m4-1.4.1-4 nkf-1.92-4 ORBit-0.5.7-3 pnm2ppa-1.04-1 procps-2.0.7-8 psutils-1.17-10 readline-4.1-9 rsh-0.17-2.5 console-tools-19990829-34 dev-3.1.0-14 newt-0.50.22-2 slocate-2.5-5 syslinux-1.52-1 tcp_wrappers-7.6-18 lilo-21.4.4-13 time-1.7-13 utempter-0.5.2-4 wget-1.6-2 cracklib-dicts-2.7-8 gpm-1.19.3-16 ppp-2.4.0-2 autofs-3.1.7-14 wvdial-1.41-12 libungif-4.1.0-7 SDL-1.1.7-3 expect-5.31-53 tksysv-1.3-2 libmng-1.0.0-2 libxml-1.8.10-1 mozilla-psm-0.7-15 gdk-pixbuf-0.8.0-7 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pine-4.33-8.71 sendmail-8.11.6-1.7.1 tmpwatch-2.8-0.7.x LPRng-3.7.4-23 kernel-headers-2.4.9-6 openssh-clients-2.9p2-8.7 xinetd-2.3.3-1
Have you verified the integrity of the packages you have downloaded? One method: $ rpm --checksig --nogpg glibc-2.2.4-19.i686.rpm glibc-2.2.4-19.i686.rpm: md5 OK Or with "md5sum": $ md5sum glibc-2.2.4-19.i686.rpm 9f41fb589348e7c6ec7f3666c76d6858 glibc-2.2.4-19.i686.rpm And then compare the MD5 checksum with those listed here: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHBA-2001-121.html
[root@desktop d]# rpm --checksig --nogpg * glibc-2.2.4-19.i686.rpm: md5 OK glibc-common-2.2.4-19.i386.rpm: md5 OK glibc-devel-2.2.4-19.i386.rpm: md5 OK glibc-profile-2.2.4-19.i386.rpm: md5 OK [root@desktop d]# rpm -Fvh * Preparing... Segmentation fault (core dumped) ( 33%) I typed the commands above immediately after installing off the RedHat 7.1 CDROM, with no other packages updated.
Almost all segfaults in rpm are caused by bad data from the database Install rpm-4.0.3, and do a rpm --rebuilddb to fix. Reopen this bug if that does not fix the problem.