rpm still dumping core

David Mack davidwmack at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 23:46:36 UTC 2008


rpm is segfaulting when I try to install kernel-devel:

# gdb rpm
GNU gdb Fedora (6.8-12.fc10)
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) run -ihv kernel-devel-2.6.26-0.90.rc7.git2.fc10.i686.rpm
Starting program: /bin/rpm -ihv kernel-devel-2.6.26-0.90.rc7.git2.fc10.i686.rpm
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb7fd7710 (LWP 3242)]
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:kernel-devel           ###############                             ( 35%)
Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
The program no longer exists.
(gdb) bt
No stack.

After this happens, the machine becomes completely unresponsive and
has to be powercycled.

Dave




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