On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:23 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:

>>
>>
>> If the new assertion fires, then I'm not reading the rpmds iteration
>> code correctly.
>>
>> If the old assertion fires, then there's a wild pointer somewhere.
>>
>> Thanks.
> [root@localhost SPECS]# LC_ALL=C
> rpm -Uvh /home/peroyvind/RPM/RPMS/x86_64/drakxtools- 
> curses-10.29-1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm /home/peroyvind/RPM/RPMS/noarch/ 
> drakx-net-*
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         drakxtools-backend = 10.29-1mdv2008.1 is needed by
> drakxtools-curses-10.29-1mdv2008.1.x86_64
>         libdrakx-net = 0.34 is needed by drakx- 
> net-0.34-1mdv2008.1.noarch
>         libdrakx-net = 0.34 is needed by drakx-net- 
> text-0.34-1mdv2008.1.noarch
>         drakxtools-curses = 10.22-1mdv2008.1 is needed by (installed)
> harddrake-10.22-1mdv2008.1.x86_64
>         drakxtools-curses = 10.22-1mdv2008.1 is needed by (installed)
> drakxtools-10.22-1mdv2008.1.x86_64
> rpm: depends.c:1776: zapRelation: Assertion `tsi->tsi_reqx >= 0 &&
> tsi->tsi_reqx < rpmdsCount(requires)' failed.
> Avbrutt (SIGABRT)
>

Old assertion == wild pointer (or other malloc issue).

That's what I needed to know.

FWIW, this patch likely avoids the free that is almost certainly the  
primary
cause of the segfault:

Index: depends.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /v/rpm/cvs/rpm/lib/depends.c,v
retrieving revision 1.394
diff -u -b -B -w -p -r1.394 depends.c
--- depends.c   1 Apr 2008 09:08:49 -0000       1.394
+++ depends.c   15 Apr 2008 22:39:41 -0000
@@ -2369,7 +2369,9 @@ rescan:
                 rpmlog(msglvl, "    %-40s %s\n", (nevra ? nevra :  
"???"),
                         (dp ? dp : "not found!?!"));

+#if 0
                 dp = _free(dp);
+#endif
             }

             /* Walk (and erase) linear part of predecessor chain as  
well. */

I've been trying to understand the secondary cause that is snarled
up with walking interlocked dependency loops and displaying the
relations involved, but I will likely need to look at that first hand by
installing MDV 2008.1, todo++.

Thanks for the help.

73 de Jeff