RHN Registration, yum or other RHN utilities fail with segmentation fault
Issue
- RHN Registration, yum or other RHN utilities fail with segmentation fault
- I see the following errors in
/var/log/messages
:
Nov 14 14:16:29 localhost kernel: rhn_register[4070]: segfault at 0000000600001c4f rip 0000003759c79a6a rsp 00007fff6fff1258 error 4
Nov 14 14:17:28 localhost kernel: rhn_register[4105]: segfault at 0000000600001c4f rip 0000003759c79a6a rsp 00007ffff76dfd48 error 4
- In other occurrence of the issue:
Mar 4 10:17:47 rhel6 kernel: rhnreg_ks[9330]: segfault at 3d00000000 ip 0000003dfcb29460 sp 00007fff429a6898 error 4 in libc-2.12.so[3dfca00000+18b000]
Mar 4 10:19:43 rhel6 kernel: rhn_register[10441]: segfault at 3d00000000 ip 0000003dfcb29460 sp 00007fff7b7c73b8 error 4 in libc-2.12.so[3dfca00000+18b000]
- In yet another case,
yum
segfaulted with:
Nov 29 23:57:13 rhel6 kernel: yum[7450]: segfault at 3800000000 ip 0000003815b255d0 sp 00007fffc8362b98 error 4 in libc-2.12.so[3815a00000+197000]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
- rhn_register
- yum
- libxml2 of lower version than
2.7.6-14
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