yum update segfaulting on transaction test

[Jonathan Berry]

Hi all,

I'm having a problem trying to use yum update.  I just updated a few
packages a couple of minutes earlier, now with a few more packages to
update, it segfaults while running the transaction test.  I'm running
FC3 x86_64 with everything up to date except for the few packages I'm
trying to update.  Anyone else having a problem with this?  Attached
below is the output I'm getting.  Attempting to update individual
package sets gives the same results.  I just tried copying the rpm
files to be updated into a seperate folder and running rpm -Uvh * and
that also results in a segmentation fault.  This is looking bad... 
The previous update that succeeded updated the following packages:
Mar 23 21:02:59 Updated: gaim.x86_64 1:1.2.0-0.1.fc3.rf
Mar 23 21:03:01 Updated: lftp.x86_64 3.0.13-1.1.fc3.rf
Mar 23 21:03:02 Updated: dvgrab.x86_64 1.6-1.1.fc3.rf
Mar 23 21:04:47 Updated: boost.x86_64 1.32.0-5.fc3
Mar 23 21:04:49 Updated: perl-Digest-SHA1.x86_64 2.10-1.1.fc3.rf
Mar 23 21:05:48 Updated: boost.i386 1.32.0-5.fc3

I shouldn't think any of these should have anything to do with rpm. 
Attempting to just update one package also results in a segfault.  Any
ideas?

Jonathan

# yum -y update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
dag                       100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
extras                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
dag       : ################################################## 3282/3282
extras    : ################################################## 882/882
updates-re: ################################################## 789/789
base      : ################################################## 2852/2852
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package evolution.x86_64 0:2.0.4-2 set to be updated
---> Package selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 0:1.17.30-2.90 set to be updated
---> Package thunderbird.x86_64 0:1.0.2-1.3.1 set to be updated
---> Package devhelp.x86_64 0:0.9.2-2.3.1 set to be updated
---> Package kdelibs.x86_64 6:3.3.1-2.9.FC3 set to be updated
---> Package lsof.x86_64 0:4.72-2.2 set to be updated
---> Package mozilla-nspr.x86_64 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 set to be updated
---> Package mozilla-nss.x86_64 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 set to be updated
---> Package kdelibs-devel.x86_64 6:3.3.1-2.9.FC3 set to be updated
---> Package kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-2.9.FC3 set to be updated
---> Package mozilla-nspr.i386 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 set to be updated
---> Package mozilla.x86_64 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 set to be updated
---> Package mozilla-nss.i386 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved
Transaction Listing:
  Update: devhelp.x86_64 0:0.9.2-2.3.1 - updates-released
  Update: evolution.x86_64 0:2.0.4-2 - updates-released
  Update: kdelibs.x86_64 6:3.3.1-2.9.FC3 - updates-released
  Update: kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-2.9.FC3 - updates-released
  Update: kdelibs-devel.x86_64 6:3.3.1-2.9.FC3 - updates-released
  Update: lsof.x86_64 0:4.72-2.2 - updates-released
  Update: mozilla.x86_64 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 - updates-released
  Update: mozilla-nspr.x86_64 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 - updates-released
  Update: mozilla-nspr.i386 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 - updates-released
  Update: mozilla-nss.x86_64 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 - updates-released
  Update: mozilla-nss.i386 37:1.7.6-1.3.2 - updates-released
  Update: selinux-policy-targeted.noarch 0:1.17.30-2.90 - updates-released
  Update: thunderbird.x86_64 0:1.0.2-1.3.1 - updates-released
Total download size: 66 M
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Segmentation fault

# rpm -Uvh thunderbird-1.0.2-1.3.1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...                Segmentation fault