Re: Are My RPM/Yum Seg-Faults Due to the Kernel FIle Corruption?

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On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Paul Dickson wrote:

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:18:43 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

the bug wasn't seen prior to 2.6.19 so I doubt what you see is related
to it...

In the note about 2.6.20-rc2 says its been there since at least 2.6.18.3.

Yup, and it certainly affects at least apt-rpm in current Fedora 5 & 6 kernels. I've seen a bunch of crash reports (and managed to reproduce it a few times myself) which all are caused by zeroes in apt's cachefile where data is expected...

In the cases I managed to reproduce it, no rpmdb corruption was present, just apt's own cachefile. But as rpm uses mmap it's at least *possible* some of the rpm issues people see in FC6 are caused by it.

	- Panu -

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