[PLUG] why segfault

Paul Heinlein heinlein at attbi.com
Mon Nov 4 18:41:09 UTC 2002


On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Mike De La Mater wrote:

> I've got a corrupted rpm database on a RH 7.3 system, so:
> #rpm -rebuilddb

I assume you mean 'rpm --rebuilddb' (with two hyphens, not just one).

> It runs for a while, but instead of finishing, I get:
> Seegmentation fault

The best thing to do is wrap rpm in strace so you can figure out which 
system call is the one causing it to hang:

# strace -o /tmp/rpmcrash.txt rpm --rebuilddb

You might also consider verifying the db files to see if you can spot 
the error:

# db3_verify /var/lib/rpm/*

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>





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