yum/rpm triggers "segment violation"

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:02:31 -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:

> Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 16:03 -0600 schrieb Aaron Konstam:
> > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 16:06 -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote:
> > > Hi. 
> > > 
> > > On friday I've installed a fedora9(i386). After "yum update" and
> > > rebooting, both yum and rpm commands show "segment violation", only "rpm
> > > --usage" works.

It sounds much as if you need to "repair" installed files from within
rescue mode.

Does "rpm -V rpm" also crash?
And even without rpm-debuginfo installed, what does gdb say about
the backtrace?