rpm segfaulting on Cyrix P166

["Leonard den Ottolander" <leonardjo hetnet nl>]

Hi,

 Send this to the rhl-beta-list before but didn't receive any reaction. 
Also, the CC to this list doesn't seem to have made it here.

 I was unable to install Severn on an old Cyrix P166. It would terminate 
the installation immediately after package selection without any error 
other than "exited abnormally".

 So I proceeded to install 7.3 on the system and do a Severn installation 
using rpm --root from there. This renders a functional system (apart from 
some missing config files), but with an incorrect rpmdb. So I supplied a 
correct rpmdb created using rpm --justdb on an other Severn system. Even 
after substituting the rpmdb I was seeing segfaults / non-exec exploits on 
every invocation of rpm.

 To make sure this has nothing to do with the installation being performed 
from a 7.3 system I exported a new partition from the Cyrix Severn system 
and installed a new system from another Severn system, again using rpm --
root /mnt/nfs_cyrix. I am still seeing segfaults on every invocation of 
rpm, also when using the latest 9 kernel and the latest rawhide rpm.

 Backtraces on core files created by invocations of rpm -qa 
(/usr/lib/rpm/rpmq) and rpm -i <pack> (/bin/rpm) show rpmShowRC to be the 
location of the crash:

#0  0x0025c9c4 in rpmShowRC () from /usr/lib/librpm-4.2.so

 Because this is such an old cpu I am not sure if  this if worth reporting 
via bugzilla. If you think it is, should I add core files, and if so do you 
need core files for different invocations of rpm and/or for both kernels?

Bye,
Leonard.

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