[pacman-dev] Segmentation fault

[Dan McGee]

On Nov 15, 2007 10:55 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2007 4:10 AM, Nagy Gabor <ngaba at bibl.u-szeged.hu> wrote:
> > Hm. What's the difference?:
> > In the first case tk is in my /var/cache, so pacman tries to download only
> > cdparanoia. In the second case my cache is empty (after -Scc), so pacman tries
> > to download both (however, pacman could download tk to my cache before segfault)
>
> Hmm, right off the bat I noticed this:
>
> error: failed retrieving file 'cdparanoia-9.8-4.pkg.tar.gz' from  : No
> such file or directory
>
> That is apparently a blank server... we should take this into account,
> but to verify if this is the bug or not, can you remove that empty
> server from your config and see if it changes anything?

It is actually not a blank server, but a file:// URL which sets the
server part to null or "" (hopefully, otherwise we could have a
segfault here). Thus, only the path is set. I'm sure we can find a way
to make this message more clear.

-Dan