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Description of problem:

[jcm@rhel6-devel ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh kernel-debug-*
[sudo] password for jcm: 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:kernel-debug-devel     ########################################### [ 50%]
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

[jcm@rhel6-devel ~]$ dmesg|tail
<snip>
rpm[14567] general protection ip:7f36e3da0855 sp:7fff47b933e0 error:0 in libc-2.12.so[7f36e3d2b000+175000]

Jon.

This might be a KVM bug. The host is showing a perf counter warning around the same time as this occurred. But I want to share this anyway, in case others have experienced similar crashes or somesuch.

This issue has been proposed when we are only considering blocker
issues in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

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What kernel is the host running?

Since KVM is involved, this is very likely dupe of 607650.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 607650 ***