Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 86163
rpm-4.2-0.71 segmentation faults
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030221 Description of problem: rpm-4.2-0.71 seems to Segmentation Fault on some packages when you use "rpm -q" consistently, but not others. [root@laptop root]# rpm -q rpm rpm-4.2-0.71 [root@laptop root]# rpm -q kdebase kdebase-3.1-9 Segmentation fault [root@laptop root]# rpm -q kdelibs kdelibs-3.1-9 Segmentation fault [root@laptop root]# rpm -q glibc glibc-2.3.1-51 [root@laptop root]# rpm -q gnome-panel gnome-panel-2.2.0.1-7 Also it segfaults every time if I CTRL-C from "rpm -qa". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.2-0.71 kernel-2.4.20-0.54 glibc-2.3.1-51 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -q certain packages OR rpm -qa and CTRL-C
Fixed in rpm-4.2-0.72.
What is the simplest way to reinstall an older rpm package? rpm-4.2-0.71 segfaults on me when installing packages.
There has been some discussion of this on the phoebe mailling list. The message https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/phoebe-list/2003-March/004704.html is probably the most useful.