RPM upgrade problem

["Matthew R. MacIntyre" <matt matty dyndns org>]

Hi folks,

I upgraded one of my machines from RedHat 6.2 to RedHat 7.1 over the
weekend, using the "upgrade" option on the CD.  Everything seemed to
work out ok, except now I've got a problem with rpm.

After upgrading I wanted to add some packages, but each time I try, it
segfaults and dumps core right after the "Preparing ...." stage.

Here is some sample output with verbosity turend on (sorry about it
being a little long):

[root@hedwig /root]# rpm -Uvvh setuptool-1.7-2.i386.rpm 
D: counting packages to install
D: found 1 packages
D: looking for packages to download
D: retrieved 0 packages
D: Expected size:         9584 = lead(96)+sigs(149)+pad(3)+data(9336)
D:   Actual size:         9584
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: found 0 source and 1 binary packages
D: opening db index       /var/lib/rpm/Depends create mode=0x42
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: opening db index       /var/lib/rpm/Providename create mode=0x42
D:  Requires: ld-linux.so.2                                 YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6                                     YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libdl.so.2                                    YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libm.so.6                                     YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libnewt.so.0.50                               YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libslang.so.1                                 YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)                          YES (db provides)
D:  Requires: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)                        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: opening db index       /var/lib/rpm/Conflictname create mode=0x42
D: ========== recording tsort relations
D: ========== tsorting packages
D:     0 (1,1) setuptool-1.7-2
D: ========== successors only (presentation order)
D: installing binary packages
D: getting list of mounted filesystems
D: opening db index       /var/lib/rpm/Basenames create mode=0x42
D: opening db index       /var/lib/rpm/Group create mode=0x42
D: opening db index       /var/lib/rpm/Requirename create mode=0x42
D: opening db index       /var/lib/rpm/Triggername create mode=0x42
Preparing...                ##################################################D: Expected size:         9584 = lead(96)+sigs(149)+pad(3)+data(9336)
D:   Actual size:         9584
D: package: setuptool-1.7-2 files test = 0
D:    file: /etc/X11/applnk/System/setuptool.desktop action: create
D:    file: /usr/sbin/setup action: create
D:    file: /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo action: create
D:    file: /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo action: create
D:    file: /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo action: create
D:    file: /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo action: create
D:    file: /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/setup.mo action: create
D: running preinstall script (if any)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

This happens with each package I try to install.  I've tried
rebuilding the database with --rebuilddb, but to no avail.  To the
best of my knowledge, this problem only occurs with installation and
upgrades; querying of information and removal of packages works as
expected.

Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this problem?

Thanks,

-matt