Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 64008
rpm operations segfault; corrupt database
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:02 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) Description of problem: Shortly after upgrading from RH 5.2 to RH 72 (from the vanilla CDs), my RPM database became damaged. I am not sure of the exact sequence, but the entry for 'gnuchess' appears to be the culprit. I tried to 'rpm -e gnuchess' and started getting complaints about database problems and __db.00[12] files. An 'rpm -qa' lists all packages up to and including gnuchess, but then segfaults. It appears that attempts to manipulate packages that appear after gnuchess will fail, but I cannot state that categorically. I tried rebuilding the database with 'rpm --rebuillddb' and got a segfault. I tried exporting and importing the database through dumpdb_031 and dbimport_031; no errors were encountered, but the database appears to still be corrupt. This problem is causing up2date to fail, and there are a lot of updates I want to apply. :-) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00[12] 2. rpm -qa OR rpm --rebuilddb 3. Actual Results: # rpm -qa gnome-linuxconf-0.14-4rh sag-0.6-1 : dip-3.3.7o-12 gnuchess-4.0.pl77-5 Segmentation fault # rpm --rebuilddb Segmentation fault Both leave /var/lib/rpm/__db.00? droppings. Expected Results: I should have gotten a complete and failure-free list of all installed packages. I should have gotten a failure-free rebuilt package database. Additional info: I am classifying this as a security bug because the database corruption is preventing me from applying security errata.
A pointer (i.e. URL, attachments won't work) of a tarball of your database please: cd /var/lib tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb-64008.tar.gz rpm
Online at <URL:http://Source-Zone.Org/rpmdb-64008.tar.gz>. Thanks.
Instance #174 (dip IIRC) was damaged. I've deleted that instance, and a fixed copy of your rpm/Packages is at ftp://people.redhat.com/jbj/rpmdb-64008-FIX.tar.gz Download and install by doing cd /var/lib mv rpm/Packages rpm/Packages-ORIG tar xzvf rpmdb-64008-FIX.tar.gz rpm --rebuilddb -vv rpm -qa