[pacman-dev] Segmentation fault during db or package download

[Allan McRae]

Roman Kyrylych wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been inactive for the past year, so I don't know if this is already fixed.
> Sometimes I get segmentation fault during downloading db or package.
> This is the latest output from today. As you may see this is with --debug,
> but it doesn't really helps to get idea on what may cause the segfault.
>
> Targets (3): audacious-plugins-2.1-1  audacious-2.1-1  python-2.6.2-4
>
> Total Download Size:    18.47 MB
> Total Installed Size:   73.52 MB
>
> Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
> debug: using cachedir: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
> :: Retrieving packages from extra...
> debug: using 'audacious-plugins-2.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' for download progress
> debug: HTTP_PROXY: (null)
> debug: http_proxy: (null)
> debug: FTP_PROXY:  (null)
> debug: ftp_proxy:  (null)
> debug: connected to dev.archlinux.org successfully
> downloading audacious-plugins-2.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz...
> error: segmentation fault
> Internal pacman error: Segmentation fault.
> Please submit a full bug report with --debug if appropriate.
>
> At the time of this segfault I was connected to a wireless network
> with quite unstable connection (disconnects are rare,
> but I think packet loss might have place).
>
> Seems like libfetch related issue. Is this known?
> Or if it's alpm/pacman-related - was something like this fixed in git?
>
>
> P.S.: looks like --debug is not even mentioned in the man page,
> is this intentional or just forgotten?
>   

I'm sure there is a bug report still open about this.  It does seem 
releated to unstable networks.  From memory, there has been no-one who 
can replicate consistently so that we can debug to source of the crash.

Allan