Segmentation fault during upgrade

[Paul Erickson]

Scott R. Godin wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 09:05 -0700, Paul Erickson wrote:
>   
>> While doing a yum upgrade I received the following error message:
>>
>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.63971: line 6: 13175 Segmentation fault 
>>     
>>> /usr/sbin/module_upgrade 2.6.17-1.2145_FC5
>>>       
>> How serious is this, and what can I do to fix it?
>>     
>
> fairly so.. rpm shouldn't segfault.
>
> it may be that the rpm database has become corrupted. 
>
> before doing anything about that, you may want to run a manual fsck
> (booting from the install cd in rescue mode) of the drive and look for
> deeper problems before proceeding with an rpm database repair on an
> already corrupted filesystem. 
>
> If you decide not to do that, I'd strongly recommend talking with the
> folks in the #rpm channel on irc.freenode.net via xchat or the chatzilla
> plugin in Firefox, before doing anything with the rpm database. There's
> several steps to take aside from the former 'conventional wisdom', as I
> found out the hard way. They are most helpful there. (can you tell I
> went through some rpm database corruption recently, myself? :)
>
>
> tell me something, just out of personal curiosity. Are you running
> ati/nvidia/ntfs/wireless drivers, or ANY other similar nonstandard
> kernel modules? (strange question, I know, but one that *I* myself was
> asked by another tech when I reported problems that eerily resemble
> yours)
>   
Thanks for the reply. I am not running any of the drivers you mention. 
It appears that the problem
occurred while installing kernel-2.6.17-1.2145_FC5. Having not rebooted, 
I am still using
kernel-2.6.16-1.2133_FC5.

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