Re: segfault with just running "rpm -qa"

[Stephen Smoogen <smoogen lanl gov>]

My first course of action would be to see if the Red Hat default 2.4.x
kernel showed this problem. If it doesnt then I would say it is
something in the latest test NPTL items that eneds to be looked at. I
would also get the latest rpm from either rawhide or rpm.org. Try to get
it update itself. 

Once you have updated it and found it stable (if it is stable).. I
normally do a rpm --rebuilddb.

I will warn you it mostly out of habit versus knowing that it does
anything. I have found that a lot of things I do like rm'ing the __db
files is also habit and doesnt have any effect when I forget to.

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 04:32, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Oded Arbel wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 24 September 2003 13:14, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >   just now, i noticed that running a simple "rpm -qa" printed
> > > all of five packages, then segfaulted.  i did the customary
> > > "rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*", but the problem persists.
> > >
> > >   thoughts?  this is new, and a little disturbing.
> > 
> > Did you do rpm --rebuilddb ?
> 
> no, i wanted to get any advice before i tried something more serious
> like that.  so is that the recommended first course of action, then?
> i'm still curious as to what happened underneath.
> 
> rday
> 
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