I've been having trouble with rpm seg faults and yum freezing ever since upgrading to Fedora Core 6. For example:
.....and this:
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
zsh: segmentation fault sudo yum -y update rpm
% sudo rpmdb --rebuilddbTo get rpm to start working again, I've been resorting to doing this, which fixes the problems most of the time:
zsh: segmentation fault sudo rpmdb --rebuilddb
% sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* ; sudo rpmdb --rebuilddb
This has failed to work on one occasion:
% sudo rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* ; sudo rpmdb --rebuilddb
Password:
zsh: segmentation fault sudo rpmdb --rebuilddb
It looks like the hangs might be some kind of locking bug -- I've also seen these programs hang on futex(), where rebooting seems to help get them back into a working state. I'll just assume that this will get fixed at some point.
Update (2006 November 28): Database problems have continued:
% sudo rpmdb --rebuilddbthe workaround described above seemed to fix it.
rpmdb: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30977) from dbenv->open: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - (-30977)
Today's error mode
rpmdb: unable to lock mutex: Invalid argument
zsh: segmentation fault sudo rpm -Uvh --force [...]
Update (2006 December
Update (2006 December 4)
Today's error message (while trying to "rpm -e" something) was exciting:
The same forced database recovery as done above worked.
rpmdb --rebuilddb error
However, the rebuild appears to have worked anyway