[issue197] Smart Fails on Segmentation Faults

[Basil Chupin]

Werner Flamme wrote:
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> Basil Chupin schrieb am 25.08.2006 12:02:
>> If all other packages where installed manually without a problem but the 
>> 4 smart 4.29 packages do not get installed but generate an error message 
>> of 'Segmentation Fault' I would say that I have a reasonable 
>> justification to come to the conclusion that the 4.29 smart packages are 
>> broken.
>>
>> Cheers.
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> Basil,
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> there is no other issue in this forum telling 0.42-9 is broken. It's just
> you.

I must be reading things differently but I thought I read that there is 
at least one other person who has struck the "Segmentation Fault".

  I have this package as well, and it works like a charm :-) Though, I
> like the graphical interface of good old apt better than that of smart 8-)

I've been hearing a lot about apt so may switch over to it to try it out.


> When smart issues a segmentation fault, it's mostly not because of smart
> but because of either an error in some repository file(s) or inside the rpm
> db. I know what I speak of :-(

OK, I don't really care where the damn fault lies as long as I can fix 
the problem :-) .


> For me, it helped (0.41-x) to delete some of the files in
> /var/lib/smart/channels. One can delete all files, I think - the channels
> to use are stored somewhere else. BTW, it was issue 166 on the  tracker...

I don't know if you have read what I have been stating so far but I have 
deleted the packages and the channels directories several times over and 
all I get is the same problem coming back to bite me: Segmentation 
Fault, as soon as the 4.29 smart packages begin to install. I even 
downloaded them from the smart URL and tried to install them manually - 
with the same result.

Cheers.



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