Re: yum: segmentation fault when number of packages over about 300

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Seth Vidal wrote:


On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, James Antill wrote:

Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I've been noticing that when we do a 'yum update' and the package set
exceeds around 300 packages that we get a segmentation fault every now
and then. I've been restricting the updates to no more than 200 at a
time and we don't see the problem now.

This is with f9/f10 yum/rpm/etc. ?

My first guess would be that it's running out of memory, possibly
inside rpm itself (there was a bug with fingerprinting on kernel
updates that caused memory usage explosion).
But it's hard to say, can you get a backtrace from a core file?
Certainly nothing in yum can cause a SEGV without a bug somewhere
else.


It shouldn't be segfaulting - it could be oom-killing but not segfaulting.

Run 'dmesg' and see what the system is reporting for that time.

-sv

The only segfault in dmesg is this:
python[9488]: segfault at 48 ip 073feb15 sp bfdbdaa0 error 4 in libpython2.5.so.1.0[73a4000+125000]

Regards,
Gerry

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