[pacman-dev] Segfault at end of transaction?

jjacky i.am.jack.mail at gmail.com
Thu Apr 25 05:14:15 EDT 2013



On 04/25/13 11:00, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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?

No, 7.29 only. Guess it's not that then.


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