Yum: Segmentation fault...

[Rodolfo Alcazar]

On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:30 -0500, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 11:39 AM -0500 11/29/06, Ray Pittigher wrote:
> >I had the same problem and did
> >
> >rpm --initdb
> >rpm --rebuilddb
> >
> >and it all worked after
> 
> After "rpm --initdb" you have an empty RPM database.  After "rpm
> --rebuilddb" you still have an empty RPM database.  See what "rpm -qa" says.

Look this output, I tried this home, also. My office FC6 rpm database is
yet fixed and no more segmentation faults:

[rap] /root # rpm --initdb
[rap] /root # rpm -qa | head
mktemp-1.5-23.2.1
libxml2-2.6.23-1.2
audiofile-0.2.6-2.2.1
libacl-2.2.34-1.2
mailx-8.1.1-44.2.1
speex-1.0.5-1.2.1
procmail-3.22-16.2.1
libusb-0.1.11-2.2
libXrender-0.9.0.2-3.2
libXfixes-3.0.1.2-2.2
[rap] /root # rpm --rebuilddb
[rap] /root # rpm -qa | head
libusb-0.1.11-2.2
libtheora-1.0alpha5-1.2.1
numactl-0.6.4-1.27
libXft-2.1.8.2-3.2
libwvstreams-4.2.1-2
urw-fonts-2.3-6.1
xorg-x11-drv-dummy-0.1.0.5-1.2
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-5.1
distcache-1.4.5-13
libXmu-devel-1.0.0-2.2
[rap] /root # 

> Don't do "rpm --initdb" unless you are willing to re-install all the
> packages you already have (using --justdb).

After that procedure, I was afraid of losing something, cause its the
first time I tried this, and realizing now there was a risk. Luckily yum
check-update worked fine. Also by home.

>From the manual:

"Use --initdb to create a new database, use --rebuilddb to rebuild the
database indices from the installed package headers."

Anyway, thanks, Tony. If you can be more specific about what should we
lose if making an initdb, please let us know. 

Good luck!
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