Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 61552
Segmentation fault when trying to add, upgrade, or erase packages
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: When I try to add, upgrade of delete rpm packages I get a segmentation fault From trying different things, I know that it will rebuild the database, query packages, check for dependencies when I try to install or delete packages, and it through the preparing packages bar graph ... but then I get a segmentation fault If I try this: rpm -Uvvh /backup/dnloads/Perl/*.rpm I get: blah.... blah... D: ========== continuing tsort ... D: 2 1 3 2 perl-CPAN-1.59_54-26.72.3 D: LOOP: D: removing perl-5.6.1-26.72.3 "Requires: perl-CGI" from tsort relations. D: perl-5.6.1-26.72.3 Requires: perl-CGI D: removing perl-CGI-2.752-26.72.3 "Requires: perl >= 1:5.6.1-26.72.3" from tsort relations. D: perl-CGI-2.752-26.72.3 Requires: perl >= 1:5.6.1- 26.72.3 D: ========== continuing tsort ... D: 3 4 5 1 perl-5.6.1-26.72.3 D: ========== successors only (presentation order) D: 4 1 6 1 mod_perl-1.26-2 D: 5 1 4 2 perl-CGI-2.752-26.72.3 D: installing binary packages D: getting list of mounted filesystems Preparing... D: opening db environment /var/lib/rpm/Basenames joinenv D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42 ########################################### [100%] D: Expected size: 19427 = lead(96)+sigs(293)+pad(3)+data(19035) D: Actual size: 19427 D: install: perl-NDBM_File-1.75-26.72.3 has 5 files, test = 0 Segmentation fault I've followed the instructions in the rpm-list email from Tom Diehl (dated Mar 9, 2002) and don't get any errors, but it still doesn't solve my problem I'm not sure exactly what caused the problem, but it may have been when I tried to do a rpm -ba samba from the samba src rpm to get ldap support Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. I don't know what caused this so I can't tell you how to reproduce it 2. 3. Expected Results: It should be able to install, upgrade, or delete packages Additional info: I tried upgrading to rpm 4.0.4 but I can't through rpm (I get a segmentation fault) and trying to compile from source gave me all kinds of compiler errors
Add a pointer (i.e. URL, attachments won't work) to a tarball of you database cd /var/lib tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb-61522.tar.gz rpm and I'll see if I can get you a fix.
tarball of my database is available at: www.jecinc.on.ca/rpmdb-61522.tar.gz
Hmmm, I've gotten myself confused between #61522 and #61552. Apologies. Fix in a moment ...
Hmmm, I don't see a problem with your rpmdb using rpm-4.0.4. Just in case, I've rebuilt your rpmdb, tarball of rpm/Packages at ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/rpmdb-61552-FIX.tar.gz Download and install by doing cd /var/lib mv rpm/Packages rpm/Packages-ORIG tar xzvf rpmdb-61552-FIX.tar.gz rpm --rebuilddb -vv I'd suggest using rpm-4.0.4. Hmmm, are you using LDAP passwords? If so, you need to start up nscd, as there's a linkage problem deep in PAM modules that affects statically linked binaries like rpm.