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

Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, James Antill wrote:
>
>> Gerry Reno <[email protected]> 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