Re: segfault with just running "rpm -qa"

[Paul Heinlein <heinlein cse ogi edu>]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:

> 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.

The easy way to test if NPTL is the problem is to use the
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL hack:

  LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 rpm -qa

I'm running SGI's XFS-friendly kernel on a Red Hat 9 box, and I've got
to set that silly environment variable any time I want to query or
update the rpm database.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein@cse.ogi.edu>