yum and up2date unexpectedly quit (librpmio issue, I think)

[Jon]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:

> Jon writes:
>
>>>
>> Well, I'm not sure why the segmentation fault (the dumb thing...), 
>> but this is how it comes out:
>>
>> [jon at localhost jon]$ rpm -q up2date yum rpm rpm-devel
>> up2date-4.3.11-2.1.1
>> yum-2.0.5.20040310-1
>> rpm-4.3-0.20
>> Segmentation fault
>> [jon at localhost jon]$
>>
>> I haven't tried upgrading to glibc manually, so I'm going to try 
>> that. I often try to avoid updating glibc for as much as I can...
>
>
> If rpm itself is segfaulting here, then I would suspect a corrupt rpm 
> database.
>
> Go to /var/lib/rpm and remove all the __db.* crap.  If that still 
> doesn't fix it try rpm --rebuilddb.  And if that doesn't work, you're 
> screwed.
>
>
Never mind, it was screwed because of glibc (I believe). After getting 
it updated, it comes out without the seg fault.

[jon at localhost jon]$ sudo rpm -q up2date yum rpm rpm-devel
up2date-4.3.11-2.1.1
yum-2.0.5.20040310-1
rpm-4.3-0.20
rpm-devel-4.3-0.9.1

Thanks anyway.

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