Re: segfault with just running "rpm -qa"

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Jeff Johnson wrote:
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>  
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> > Run with -vv, if segfault is early, during db opens, then it might
> > be NPTL releated. If late, then it's likely to be a data problem.
> >    
>
> and the winner is ... choice c!  when i run "rpm -qavv", it works
> fine.  "rpm -qa" still segfaults after all of 5 lines printed.
>  

Hmmm, very odd, identical code paths are traversed, -vv just prints 
messages.

Running valgrind might identify a problem, wasn't any last I looked.

Warning: valgrind with nptl is gonna make your head hurt a lot.

73 de Jeff