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Bug 85479 - 2.3.1-51 breaks rpm-4.0.4-7x
2.3.1-51 breaks rpm-4.0.4-7x
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc (Show other bugs)
1.0
i386 Linux
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Assigned To: Jakub Jelinek
Brian Brock
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Reported: 2003-03-03 11:45 EST by Moritz Barsnick
Modified: 2016-11-24 10:15 EST (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-01-12 09:29:23 EST
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Description Moritz Barsnick 2003-03-03 11:45:06 EST 
Description of problem:
After updating from Rawhide's glibc-2.3.1-38 to 2.3.1-51, one important
program always segfaults: the program rpm.

Segfaults occur only on using rpm for installation (-U), not any other tasks.

rpm --rebuilddb did not help.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.3.1-51

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -Uvh glibc*2.3.1-51.i386.rpm
2. rpm -Uvh mc-4.6.0-3.i386.rpm (any package, FWIW)
3.
    
Actual results:
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
Segmentation fault

Expected results:
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:mc                     ########################################### [100%]

Additional info:
I'm running a 7.x RedHat system, with very many, but not all, updates from RawHide. I'm still using rpm-4.0.4-7x.18 (critical component, you see ;->), but have updated recently to glibc >= 2.3.1-38, because some Rawhide programs are requiring glibc-2.3.2 symbols, which these versions provide.

Most recently, I updated to -51, because I had some problems along the lines of Bug #82505 and Bug #83325. Especially the latter, because my netscape-navigator says "Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res directly". (LD_ASSUME_KERNEL doesn't help, the upgrade to -51 didn't help, so I suppose we're stuck with this incompatibility, lacking source code.)

So now, glibc-*2.3.1-51 are the latest packages I've installed with rpm. I am now seeing this one, pretty critical issue: rpm segfaults before installing a package. "rpm --rebuilddb" did not help.

root@sunshine:/usr/new/RedHat/8.x/new # rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.0.4-7x.18
root@sunshine:/usr/new/RedHat/8.x/new # rpm -q --requires rpm | fgrep \(
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0)
librt.so.1(GLIBC_2.1)
root@sunshine:/usr/new/RedHat/8.x/new # rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.3.1-51
root@sunshine:/usr/new/RedHat/8.x/new # rpm -Uvh mc-4.6.0-3.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
Segmentation fault
root@sunshine:/usr/new/RedHat/8.x/new # rpm -Uvvvh mc-4.6.0-3.i386.rpm
D: ============== mc-4.6.0-3.i386.rpm
D: Expected size:      1585337 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(1584897)
D:   Actual size:      1585337
D: opening  db environment /var/lib/rpm/Packages create:mpool
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages create mode=0x42
D: locked   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Packages
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Name create mode=0x42
D:      added binary package [0]
D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages
D: ========== +++ mc-4.6.0-3
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x42
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42
D:  Requires: /bin/sh                                       YES (db files)
D:  Requires: /usr/bin/perl                                 YES (db files)
D:   YES    A config(mc) = 1:4.6.0-3    B config(mc) = 1:4.6.0-3
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename create mode=0x42
D:   YES    A dev = 3.3.2-4     B dev >= 3.3-3
D:  Requires: dev >= 3.3-3                                  YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libICE.so.6                                   YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libSM.so.6                                    YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libX11.so.6                                   YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6                                     YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)                          YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)                          YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)                          YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)                          YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libcom_err.so.2                               YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libext2fs.so.2                                YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libglib-2.0.so.0                              YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libgpm.so.1                                   YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libslang-utf8.so.1                            YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: perl(File::Basename)                          YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: perl(POSIX)                                   YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: perl(bytes)                                   YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: perl(strict)                                  YES (db provides)
D:   NO     A rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1    B rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1
D:   YES    A rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1    B rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1
D:  Requires: rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1        YES (rpmlib provides)
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1
D:   NO     A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B rpmlib(PayloadIsBzip2) = 3.0.5-1
D:   YES    A rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1   B rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) = 4.0-1
D:  Requires: rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1       YES (rpmlib provides)
D:   YES    A rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1  B rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1
D:  Requires: rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1      YES (rpmlib provides)
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname create mode=0x42
D: ========== --- mc-4.6.0-1
D: opening  db index       /var/lib/rpm/Requirename create mode=0x42
D: closed   db index       /var/lib/rpm/Depends
D: ========== recording tsort relations
D:   YES    A config(mc) = 1:4.6.0-3    B config(mc) = 1:4.6.0-3
D: ignore package name relation(s) [0]  libtermcap -> bash
D: ignore package name relation(s) [1]  modutils -> vixie-cron
D: ignore package name relation(s) [2]  ypbind -> yp-tools
D: ignore package name relation(s) [3]  ghostscript-fonts -> ghostscript
D: ignore package name relation(s) [4]  libgnomeprint15 -> gnome-print
D: ignore package name relation(s) [5]  nautilus -> nautilus-mozilla
D: ignore package name relation(s) [6]  tcl -> postgresql-tcl
D: ignore package name relation(s) [7]  arts -> kdelibs-sound
D: ignore package name relation(s) [8]  pango-gtkbeta-devel -> pango-gtkbeta
D: ignore package name relation(s) [9]  XFree86 -> Mesa
D: ignore package name relation(s) [10] compat-glibc -> db2
D: ignore package name relation(s) [11] compat-glibc -> db1
D: ignore package name relation(s) [12] pam -> initscripts
D: ignore package name relation(s) [13] initscripts -> sysklogd
D: ========== tsorting packages (order, #predecessors, #succesors, tree, depth)
D:     0    0    1    0    0  mc-4.6.0-3
D: installing binary packages
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
D: Expected size:      1585337 = lead(96)+sigs(344)+pad(0)+data(1584897)
D:   Actual size:      1585337
D:   install: mc-4.6.0-3 has 145 files, test = 0
Segmentation fault


Now, if I extract the contents of the old glibc package (-38) and copy ./lib/* /tmp/libc, and set that as the LD_LIBRARY_PATH:

root@sunshine:/usr/new/RedHat/8.x/new # (export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/tmp/libc; rpm -Uvh mc-4.6.0-3.i386.rpm)
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:mc                     ########################################### [100%]

Please observe that the program "rpm" itself is statically linked, so shouldn't be influenced by libc or any LD_LIBRARY_PATH. But it's probably calling some other program - which I couldn't recognize in the strace.

FWIW, there must be some kind of breakage in the backwards compatibility ABI of glibc. I'm aware of the above mentioned "extern errno" breakage, but assume that is willingly and won't be fixed, as I understand. This here though seems to be something different.

Thanks for listening,
Moritz

P.S.: I will not swear about bugzilla. This is now my 4th attempt at entering. No. 1: Opera7/Linux crashed on "Commit". No. 2: Oper7/Win/JavaScript form returns: "The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server." No. 3: Opera7/Win/Non-Javascript form: skipped it, Opera (or BugZilla?) inserts too many line breaks -> ugly. No. 4: w3m-0.4 under Linux. Fingers crossed.
Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2003-03-03 11:57:14 EST 
Have you really installed just .i386.rpm glibc rpms or .i686.rpm ones where applicable?
What kernel are you running?
/bin/rpm used to be statically linked, yes, but it uses NSS plugins, ie. dlopens
shared libraries and if you don't upgrade it, it gets confused by TLS stuff in
NPTL libc.so etc.
Alternatively, you could try
ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/glibc/errata/8.0/
which is the same glibc built without NPTL and a couple of other things.
Comment 2 Moritz Barsnick 2003-03-03 12:22:20 EST 
I have installed just glibc{,-common,-devel}-2.3.1-51.i386.rpm.
Definitely no i686 (I doublechecked), my arch is i586 (Pentium "1").

I'm running kernel 2.4.21-pre3-ac3 (or -ac2).

Okay, so rpm dlopens (or used to dlopen) critical stuff, so this is
a) a quite special case, general backwards compatibility not endangered
b) a bit misleading because dlopened stuff isn't caught in the old
   (rpm's package) dependences.

I have no idea what "TLS stuff in NPTL" means, I'll have to read up
on it. I saw that remark in Bug #82505 (report). Will this be critical
for many more old apps? Or only (but especially) the ones dlopening
libc related stuff?

Thanks,
I'll check out your RPMs,
Moritz
Comment 3 Jeff Spirko 2003-04-08 10:52:12 EDT 
I did the same thing, as reported in Bug #86197.  The fix was to manually
install enough of rpm-4.2 (and libpopt from popt > 1.7 and libelf from
elfutils-libelf-0.76) to get rpm working.  Rpm-4.1 wasn't good enough.  Once rpm
works, install those packages for real, including rpm-{build,devel,python}.  I
also had to upgrade to nscd-2.3.2-11.9, as that was broken, too.
Comment 4 Moritz Barsnick 2004-01-12 09:29:23 EST 
This is pretty old now. The resolution must be using 
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=x.y.z, and then updating to NPTL conforming rpm (and 
other apps).

I'm closing this, as this has been "solved" or explained in the same 
way in all related glibc/NPTL bug reports.
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