[rhn-users] Problem with up2date -> rpm was unable to load a header

[Herta Van den Eynde]

On 25/10/2007, Diego Vidaurre <diego.vidaurre at urjc.es> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> we have a problem when using up2date. The error is pretty simple:
>
>
> # up2date -l
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
> rpm was unable to load a header
> Segmentation Fault
>
>
> Not all up2date operations yield this error, but many do (up2date -l,
> up2date -u, up2date -d...). For example, up2date --get, up2date
> --showall, up2date --register, work with no problem
>
>
> /var/log/up2date does not output any error message:
>
>
> [Thu Oct 25 12:22:07 2007] up2date logging into up2date server
> [Thu Oct 25 12:22:08 2007] up2date successfully retrieved authentication
> token from up2date server
> [Thu Oct 25 12:22:08 2007] up2date availablePackageList from network
>
>
> i've updated the up2date package manually, but the error persists.
>
> I give some info about the system just in case it may be useful:
>
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 8)
> Linux 2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 13 17:56:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
>
> # rpm -qa | grep up2date
>
> up2date-gnome-4.5.5-8.el3
> up2date-4.5.5-8.el3
>
> # rpm -qa | grep rpm
>
> redhat-java-rpm-scripts-1.0.2-2
> rpmdb-redhat-3-0.20060712
> rpm-4.2.3-30_nonptl
> rpm-build-4.2.3-30_nonptl
> redhat-rpm-config-8.0.28-4
> rpm-python-4.2.3-30_nonptl
> rpm-devel-4.2.3-30_nonptl
> rpm-libs-4.2.3-30_nonptl
>
>
> I don't really know how to go ahead with it. Anyone could give me a tip
> or something?
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> Diego
>
Hi Diego,

Some things to try:

Headers are written to /var/spool/up2date.  Is that space OK (free
space, directory exists, write permissions,...)

You said you manually updated the up2date rpm.  Have you tried erasing
and re-installing it?

Kind regards,

Herta