From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011130 Description of problem: My rpm database has had a stroke. Any rpm operations now result in a segmentation fault. Ex. "rpm -qa" lists files up to the last package I installed and then crashes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -qa 2. 3. Actual Results: rpm -qa ..... printtool-3.54-1 XFree86-libs-4.0.3-5 vixie-cron-3.0.1-62 util-linux-2.11f-11.7.1 db1-1.85-7 rpm-python-4.0.3-1.03 compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2 kernel-2.4.3-12 zlib-1.1.3-24 bzip2-1.0.1-4 rpmdb-redhat-7.2-0.20010924 gpgp-0.4-2 svgalib-devel-1.4.1-2 howto-6.1-1 snort-1.7-1 XFree86-devel-4.0.3-5 sendmail-cf-8.11.6-1.7.1 Segmentation fault (core dumped) Expected Results: complete listing of packages installed Additional info: I'll attach my database files and core when I get the attachment.
Created attachment 39507 [details] Core file from crash
Created attachment 39510 [details] bzip file of /var/lib/rpm
Please, a URL instead, core files and rpm databases are often too large for bugzilla attachments Also, before sending me the database, can you try rpm-4.0.3? You'll probably need to install using rpm2cpio. Download all the packages from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x There are 6 packages popt-1.6.3 rpm-4.0.3 rpm-devel rpm-build rpm-python rpm-perl Assuming all the packages in /var/tmp, you can install using rpm2cpio by mkdir /var/tmp/xxx cd /var/tmp/xxx for i in ../{rpm,popt}-* do rpm2cpio $i | cpio -dim done find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; tar cf - . | (cd /; tar xvf -) Then a rpm --rebuilddb should fix what's wrong.
Sorry, but I had already sent the core and lib files before I saw the message not to send them. Thanks for the swift response. I downloaded popt-1.6.3-7x.i386.rpm rpm-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm rpm-build-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm rpm-devel-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm rpm-perl-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm rpm-python-4.0.3-7x.i386.rpm and then followed the rpm2cpio instructions. I then get, [root@wolf tmp]# rpm --rebuilddb Segmentation fault (core dumped)
A URL to a tarball, please of your database cd /var/lib tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb-57055.tar.gz rpm and I'll take a look.
Here is the URL http://www.cimsoft.com/tmp/rpmdir.tar.gz
Thanks for the URL. I'll send you a fix by private e-mail.
I am having the same problem -- rpm -qa segfaults. These solutions are always provided by private mail, so how can I get a copy of the solution? I will provide any files requested. Please be advised, I have not updated the rpm version (still 4.0.2- 6x) as I believe the problems resides in packages.rpm with the glib entry. see below: # rpm -qa tmpwatch-2.8-0.6.x setup-2.1.8-1 filesystem-1.3.5-1 basesystem-6.0-4 ldconfig-1.9.5-16 anacron-2.1-6 bash-1.14.7-23.6x shadow-utils-19990827-10 termcap-10.2.7-9 libtermcap-2.0.8-20 bind-utils-8.2.3-0.6.x MAKEDEV-2.5.2-1 ximian-wallpapers-0.2-ximian.1 ximian-faq-1.0-ximian.2 rxvt-2.6.1-8 info-4.0-5 fwbuilder-0.8.7-2 Segmentation fault # rpm -q glib Segmentation fault This is the package right before fwbuilder in the nameindex.rpm file. The file before glib is X11R6-Contrib .. it works fine: # rpm -q X11R6-contrib X11R6-contrib-3.3.2-11 Comments? Thanks, bex