Hi, I've started running valgrind over pacman3 and this first patch fixes one of the memleaks that shows up with doing pacman -Q. In this case, pmhandle_t wasn't being properly freed. cheers, Essien Index: lib/libalpm/handle.c =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs-pacman/pacman-lib/lib/libalpm/handle.c,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -r1.12 handle.c --- lib/libalpm/handle.c 10 Oct 2005 20:41:35 -0000 1.12 +++ lib/libalpm/handle.c 22 Dec 2005 16:17:16 -0000 @@ -84,12 +84,15 @@ } /* free memory */ + db_close(handle->db_local); /*verify no problems, like double free (basically, is this the right way to handle pmdb_t free/close?*/ FREETRANS(handle->trans); FREE(handle->root); FREE(handle->dbpath); + FREE(handle->cachedir); FREE(handle->logfile); FREELIST(handle->dbs_sync); FREELIST(handle->noupgrade); + FREELIST(handle->noextract); FREELIST(handle->ignorepkg); free(handle);