Bug 87805 – rpm segfaults when installing RPMs

Bug 87805 - rpm segfaults when installing RPMs

Summary:	rpm segfaults when installing RPMs

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	rpm (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Jeff Johnson
QA Contact:	Mike McLean
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Reported:	2003-04-02 14:17 EST by Chris Ricker
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:52 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-04-03 11:37:30 EST
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Description Chris Ricker 2003-04-02 14:17:52 EST

This is on a fresh everything install of RHL 9, + Jakub's potential glibc errata
(glibc-2.3.2-22.9)

When I try to install wine RPMs (wine- and wine-devel-20020605-2.i386.rpm from
RHL 8.0, rebuilt on RHL 9), I get a segmentation fault

As a starting place, I'll attach the strace.  The RPMs are probably too big to
attach, but I can put 'em on the web if you'd like to download them

Comment 1 Chris Ricker 2003-04-02 14:19:50 EST

Created attachment 90848 [details]
strace of rpm segfaulting

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-02 18:41:27 EST

I can't tell much from the strace, other than that you
are segfaulting soon after trying to retrieve a public key
to verify a package.

Some mixture of the following usually fixes:
    a) rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
    a) rpm --rebuilddb -vv
    b) erasing and reimporting the public key

SO which of those fixed the problem?

If not fixed, please include output of whatever
operation is segfaulting with -vv added.

Comment 3 Chris Ricker 2003-04-03 11:16:01 EST

rpmdb --rebuilddb (which I did for other reasons; see Bug 87812) seems to have
fixed this....

Comment 4 Chris Ricker 2003-04-03 11:17:17 EST

Oh, I actually did both (a) and (b)

rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
rpmdb --rebuilddb

Comment 5 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-03 11:37:30 EST

OK, looks solved.

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