Description of problem: Bit of a newbie at this. Rpm has become eratic and doesn't work any more. I've had to kill it because it has hung while installing If you do rpm -qa the example now on my screen has popped up a box saying "Application gnome-terminal has crashed due to a fatal error (Segmentation Fault). Clicking start system ppackages also causes errors that range from an immediate re-boot to termination of all running shells, to an error box similar to the above popping up, its not consistent. I'm reading the page at http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ where Jeff Johnson says that if rpm -qa gives segfault here I should submit an entry on bugzilla, and he'll tell me what to do. and so I am! Its worth noting that rpm --rebuilddb also gives a segfault, but db_verify Packages completes silently. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm 4.1 How reproducible: Every time on this machine now. Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -qa 2. 3. Actual results: Packages are listed out as expected, but after about 200 or more the Application gnome-terminal box appears. Clicking on this will close the shell, or all openb shells, and may freeze up the computer or cause a spontabious reboot. Occasionally a small grey error box appears here too. Expected results: Command should run to completion Additional info:
Changed component to rpm
What does "rpm --rebuilddb -vv" say?
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