Smart Fails on Segmentation Faults

[linux_learner]

Ok, but deleting the channels is only one thing. Your problem would
either be smart cache (/var/libs/smart/cache) or the smart conf
(/var/libs/smart/config).


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

You should care. Why complain to Microsoft about Linux? Why complain
to OpenOffice about Koffice? Why complain to a package manager, about
a repo? Who does the repo? Complain to that person!


On 8/25/06, Basil Chupin <blchupin at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Basil,
> >
> > 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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