On Friday 08 December 2000 15:52, you wrote:
> Jean Meloche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Wednesday 06 December 2000 14:25, you wrote:
> > > Jean Meloche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > rpm in rpm-4.0-10mdk
> > > > and MandrakeUpdate in MandrakeUpdate-7.2-18mdk
> > > >
> > > > still dump core
> > > >
> > > > [root@rocks jean]# MandrakeUpdate.real
> > > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > > > [root@rocks jean]#
> > > >
> > > > [root@rocks RPMS]# rpm -Uvh esound-0.2.22-2mdk.i586.rpm
> > > > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > > > [root@rocks RPMS]#
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I read there was others with similar problems.
> > > > Anyone figured what's wrong?
> > >
> > > Could you check that one of your partitions are not full ?
> >
> > Here is an strace on the rpm
> >
> > lseek(6, 17203200, SEEK_SET) = 17203200
> > read(6, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0h\20\0\0g\20\0\0i\20\0\0\1\0\346\17\0\007"...,
> > 4096) = 4096
> > lseek(6, 17207296, SEEK_SET) = 17207296
> > read(6, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0i\20\0\0h\20\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\335\10\0\7"...,
> > 4096) = 4096
> > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> > +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> >
> > [root@rocks RPM]# cd /var/lib/rpm/
> > [root@rocks rpm]# ls -l Packages
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30117888 Dec 6 14:27 Packages
> > [root@rocks rpm]#
> >
> > On all the packages that make it core dump, rpm always core dumps when
> > reading the entry at offset 17207296 in Packages (a bit more than 1/2
> > way through).
>
> Have you tried an rpm --rebuilddb ? It can help if rpm indexes are
> corrupted.
Yes, but it didn't help.
I gave up and ended up rebuilding the db "by hand" using rpm --justdb.
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Jean Meloche
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