OSMH: Patch Job Failed With Error “signal: segmentation fault (core dumped) "

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

OS Management Hub(OSMH)

Goal:

An OSMH patch Job failed with error “signal: segmentation fault (core dumped) "

Performing the update usingyum/dnf command fails with the same error “signal: segmentation fault (core dumped)"

Cause:

The issue was due to DNF hitting a segfault. Which possibly caused the rpm database corruption.

$ cat /var/log/messages 
Nov 13 02:02:17 <hostname> kernel: dnf[3076381]: segfault at 9 ip 00007f2214bb53ad sp 00007ffe2ba95058 error 4 in librpm.so.8.2.0[7f2214b8e000+78000]
Nov 13 02:02:17 <hostname> kernel: Code: fa 89 f8 c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 31 c0 39 f7 0f 95 c0 c3 0f 1f 40 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8b 17 8b 47 0c 33 47 08 <33> 42 08 48 8b 52 10 48 89 d1 48 c1 e1 18 31 c8 48 89 d1 48 c1 e1
Nov 13 02:02:17 <hostname> systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 3076769/UID 0).
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