[Yum] yum: segmentation fault when number of packages over about 300

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 25 17:42:20 UTC 2009



On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, James Antill wrote:

> Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> 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



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