ldconfig crashes when being executed through RPM scriptlets or manually
Issue
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When package updates happen,
yum
orrpm
report segmentation faults for/sbin/ldconfig
binary, as shown in the example below# rpm -e libwbclient-4.15.5-10.el8_6.x86_64 libwbclient-4.16.4-2.el8.x86_64 libwbclient-4.16.4-4.el8_7.x86_64 libwbclient-4.16.4-6.el8_7.x86_64 libwbclient-4.17.5-2.el8.x86_64 --nodeps /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.Zh41HR: line 7: 1261642 Segmentation fault (core dumped) /sbin/ldconfig error: %preun(libwbclient-0:4.17.5-2.el8.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 139 error: libwbclient-0:4.17.5-2.el8.x86_64: erase failed
Package names are operations may vary and are irrelevant to the root cause.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and later
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