rpm upgrades segfaulting FC1

[Brian Hankins]

I am having some trouble with rpm upgrades, while installing new 
packages works fine. This is what I see when running this:
# rpm -Uvh package.rpm
Segfault

There is a backstory to this actually. One day I was running the 
upgrades as normal through the graphical up2date tool, and I upgraded 
something like 6 packages at once. This was about a month and a half ago 
when openssl needed an update. When I rebooted, all kinds of stuff began 
segfaulting after some research and straces we ended up forcing a 
reinstall of the openssl package(just trying to ssh into another machine 
was segfaulting as well). After that everything seemed to be working 
well, except for rpm which segfaults everytime I  try to upgrade a 
package, which is hindering me from updating the system. I had something 
like this happen in an older version of redhat so I used:
# rpm --rebuilddb

I was still running into the same issue, and I went to deleted the db files:
# rm /var/lib/rpm/__db*

The problem still happens, so I grabbed the rpm of rpm from the install 
cd and upgraded it with: "rpm -Uvh --force" which ends up displaying the 
status hashes like its installing, but segfaults after that point. I 
could not find anything beneficial in my investigation in the logs or 
and strace of running rpm, granted I am not an expert on it. I would 
appreciate any suggestions, or help on a fix or workaround, or what else 
I need to look for. Thanks alot.

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Brian Hankins