Bug 73988 - corrupt rpm database
Summary: corrupt rpm database
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 6.2EE
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-09-13 16:59 UTC by jhonold
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-09-17 11:56:08 UTC
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Description jhonold 2002-09-13 16:59:35 UTC
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Description of problem:
stock rh62ee.  after rpm is upgraded from default 3.x to latest 4.x, rpm -qa, 
rpm -rebuilddb, etc segfault.

tail of rpm -rebuilddb -vvv:

> > D: adding "wu-ftpd" to Name index.
> > D: adding 46 entries to Basenames index.
> > D: adding "System Environment/Daemons" to Group index.
> > D: adding 15 entries to Requirename index.
> > D: adding 2 entries to Providename index.
> > D:   +++        746 bind-8.2.3-0.6.x
> > D: adding "bind" to Name index.
> > D: adding 156 entries to Basenames index.
> > D: adding "System Environment/Daemons" to Group index.
> > D: adding 13 entries to Requirename index.
> > D: adding 1 entries to Providename index.
> > D: adding 1 entries to Triggername index.
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
rpm -qa or rpm -rebuilddb	

Actual Results:  segmentation fault

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2002-09-17 11:56:01 UTC
I need a pointer (i.e. URL, bugzilla attachments
won't work) to a tarball of your database
	cd /var/lib
	tar czvf /tmp/rpmdb.tar.gz rpm
to fix.

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-09-17 20:40:36 UTC
Fixed in private e-mail.


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