Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 56524
rpm --rebuilddb segfaults with error
Last modified: 2012-02-08 08:53:41 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011014 Description of problem: rpm --rebuilddb segfaulst with following error error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #755 retrieved, skipping. Segmentation fault rpms seem to install but will not verify Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.rpm --rebuilddb 2. 3. Actual Results: it runs for a while then produces the forementioned error Expected Results: should have returned with no output Additional info: rpm -qa produces the same thing after printing most of the database contents. shorted output is below: kernel-doc-2.4.9-7 error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #755 retrieved, skipping. openssh-clients-3.0.1p1-1 Segmentation fault
Hmmm, the url for your database appears inaccessible. Can you confirm? Thanks ...
Sorry, had a server issue this weekend and forgot to restart the webserver. Should be accesssable now. C
Hmmm, your database is badly smashed. Here's the output of rpm -qa after doing echo "%_dbi_config_Packages %{_dbi_config}:lockdbfd:debug" >> /etc/rpm/macros I note carefully without further comment the 1st package in the listing. Probably the best thing to do is re-install. red-carpet-1.1.3-ximian.1 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,3712) "#711" 35000000 rc 0 libole2-0.2.3-ximian.2 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,15232) "#715" 35000000 rc 0 gphoto-0.4.3-ximian.5 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,30348) "#717" 33000000 rc 0 ximian-menus-1.4-ximian.4 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,7168) "#719" 35000000 rc 0 libgtop-devel-1.0.12-ximian.3 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,8196) "#721" 35000000 rc 0 pygnome-1.4.1-ximian.3 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,9324) "#723" 35000000 rc 0 gtop-1.0.13-ximian.1 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,2396) "#725" 35000000 rc 0 esound-devel-0.2.22-ximian.5 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,42096) "#745" 40000000 rc 0 glibc-2.2.4-19 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,104108) "#747" 38000000 rc 0kernel-doc-2.4.9-7 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,5092) "#755" 6873736e rc 0 error: rpmdb: damaged header instance #755 retrieved, skipping. Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,3608) "#757" 3b000000 rc 0 openssh-clients-3.0.1p1-1 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,8836) "#767" 38000000 rc 0 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,10536) "#780" 3b000000 rc 0 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,3100) "#782" 3b000000 rc 0 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,29660) "#786" 43000000 rc 0 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,6468) "#788" 40000000 rc 0 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,9904) "#790" 34000000 rc 0 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,7828) "#792" 34000000 rc 0 Get Packages key (0x8054220,4) data (0x40318008,3928) "#794" 38000000 rc 0