zypper segfaulting

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I’m on OpenSuse 10.3 and somehow I’ve ended up with my zypper
segfaulting. I recently used ‘KDE/Upgrade - openSUSE’
(http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Upgrade) to upgrade to the latest 10.3 kde.
I don’t know if that is what caused the issue. It was not present until
I more recently did a restart of my computer.

zypper -V tells me I have zypper 0.8.26

Some sample outputs:

zypper refresh

Repository ‘openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org’ is up to date.
Segmentation fault

zypper up

Segmentation fault

zypper repos work fine

If I do zypper rr repo, I get a segfault, but then if I do zypper
repos, that repo has indeed been removed.

An strace leading up to a segfault running zypper refresh can be found
at http://cowsandmilk.net/pub/zypper.strace

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Try rebuilding the database:

rpmdb --rebuilddb

zypper ref

zypper up

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Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem.

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Hi,

maybe you ran out of memory. In general YaST and zypper from 10.3 needs
a lot of memory. You can check this with top for example.

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cowsandmilk;1929645 Wrote:
> Some sample outputs:
> # zypper refresh
> Repository ‘openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org’ is up to date.
> Segmentation fault
> # zypper up
> Segmentation fault
The Segmentation fault is probably coming from zyppers own database.

See this post, mainly comment #3 : ‘OpenSuse 10.3 zypper - Cannot write
file - openSUSE Forums’ (http://tinyurl.com/7l8za8)

If you still have this issue then you can also ‘flush’ the repo cache…
but don’t think that is needed.

Cheers,
Wj

note: with 11.0 and up a ’ zypper ref -f ’ should be enough to fix
issues with the zypper db.

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I’ve tried deleting that database and it doesn’t solve the problem.

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Anything specific happen before zypper when belly up?

I don’t have a 10.3 install handy… there are other folders that can be
cleared in /var/cache/zypp/ (the repo cache for each listing).

Before touching that:

  1. Have you tried first removing all the listed repositories, applying
    the empty list and then re-adding the needed repositories?
  2. What does ’ zypper up ’ report? Are there any zypper updates
    presented?
  3. With segfaults, it sometimes it helps to reinstall - what might have
    to be manually done using the rpm’s in this case?

Curious,
Wj

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