rpm seg fault

[Jeff Johnson]

On Mar 7, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

> * BBands <bbands at gmail.com> [03-07-08 13:27]:
>> Smart seg faults on start.
>>
>> SuSE 10.1, Smart 0.51
>>
>> rpm -qa -vv seg faults as well, so it looks like I have a bad header.
>>
>> Any hints, pointers, work arounds, etc. greatly appreciated.
>
> perhaps your rpmdb is corrupt,
> try:  rpmdb --rebuilddb
> as root
>

I'm helping BBands privately already ...

For the record:
     Doing --rebuilddb is unlikely to fix --query segfaults and may  
cause further harm
     if the /var/lib/rpm__db* files are corrupt (and are not removed  
first).

73 de Jeff