| Home Up | Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 10:37:01 -0400 From: Jeff Johnson <jbj redhat.com> Reply-To: k12osn redhat.com To: k12osn redhat.com Subject: Re: [K12OSN] RPM Segmentation Fault (we've covered this somewhere) On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 08:33:32AM -0500, Caleb Wagnon wrote: > > Upgraded from 3.0 to 3.1 yesterday. It's appears to have hosed my RPM > > database... When doing a rpm -qa it segmentation faults... Same with rpm > > -rebuilddb. I think I saw this already on the list, but for the life of me > > I can't find it again... > > This isn't any help but just so the list knows, I have had this happen > regularly when I upgrade from non-k12 redhat 8.0 to 9. Yup, the transition to NPTL (i.e. the threading model that will be used by linux) is rocky. You basically need to match rpm/glibc/kernel appropriately. However, there are invariably easier solutions to rpmdb problems than reinstalling. Give me a bug report at http://bugzilla.redhat.com against rpm, and I'll help get you sorted out. The short answer(s) are 1) Use
rpm-4.0.5 Red Hat 7x (or equivalent)
rpm-4.1.1 Red Hat 8.0
rpm-4.2 Red Hat 9 (with NPTL)
2) Try (in this order) a) Save a copy of everything (just in case) b) Remove stale locks c) Try rebuilding the indices (which also does sanity checks on data) 3) If segfaults, then make a bug report. As long as you have a copy of the database in rpmdb.tar.gz, I can usually sort out the problem without reinstalling. 73 de Jeff jbj redhat.com (jbj jbj.org) Chapel Hill, NC _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list K12OSN redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn For more info see <http://www.k12os.org> Last updated: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:24:49 -0400 |