[pacman-dev] Segfault at end of transaction?

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Apr 25 05:00:39 EDT 2013


On 25/04/13 18:56, jjacky wrote:
> 
> On 04/25/13 09:21, Allan McRae wrote:
>> I'm guess no-one here has seen this (or why have you not reported it
>> yet!!!), but a couple of people on the Chakra forums are reporting a
>> segfault at the end of the transaction - after releasing the databases.
>>
>> See http://chakra-project.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=10224
> 
> Just a guess, but what version of curl are they running? curl 7.29 has a
> bug that would cause it to segfault when cleaning and no
> operation/download was done.
> 
> As that seems to be the case here, it could be curl segfaulting when
> libalpm calls curl's cleaning function.
> 
> It was patched in Arch, and now we're at 7.30, which could explain why
> no one noticed it here.
> 

http://www.chakra-project.org/packages/index.php?act=show&subdir=core/x86_64&sortby=date&file=curl-7.28.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Was the bug in 7.28.1?



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