[nylug-talk] RPM segfault; beginning to think I'm screwed

[Bill-Schoolcraft]

At Thu, 21 Dec 2006 it looks like Allen Shaw composed:

> In attempting to upgrade a package today I found that rpm has problems.
> 
> # rpm -U webmin.rpm
> Segmentation fault
> 
> I double-checked the downloaded rpm file with --checksig (resulting in 
> md5: OK), and just-in-case downloaded the file again.  Same results.  
> 
> More checking finds that rpm also segfaults when attempting to install 
> or remove packages.  I tried rebuilding the db, but still same results.
> # rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*
> # rpm --rebuilddb
> # rpm -U webmin.rpm
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Even tried tips at http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ from Jeff 
> Johnson, but still no luck:
> # cd /var/lib/rpm
> # mv Packages Packages-ORIG
> # db_dump Packages-ORIG | db_load Packages
> # rpm --rebuilddb
> # rpm -U /path/to/webmin.rpm
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Nothing I can think of has changed on this machine related to rpm, 
> though there may be more related to rpm than I image. 
> 
> System: RedHat 7.3
> RPM: rpm-4.0.4-7x.18
> 
> Am I screwed?  This is a VDS server hosting several live applications, 
> so I am interested in trying anything and everything to avoid 
> reinstalling. 
> 
> - Allen

I'm going form memory now but didn't 7.3 run rpm-3.* ?

I recall doing an upgrade from 3 to 4 on one of my redhat boxes waaay
back when and actually got caught in the middle of "no-mans-land" with
neither a functioning ver-3 or ver-4, not sure now if it was 7.3 (an all
time favorite of mine along with 6.2) or not.

Kinda had that "Duh" feeling you get when not paying attention and cut
yourself off of a remote ssh connection by fiddling with the remote
network settings...


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