[issue166] Segmentation fault on "smart update"

[Jeff Johnson]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 8:38 AM, Werner Flamme at Labix Tracker wrote:

>
> New submission from Werner Flamme <werner.flamme at ufz.de>:
>
> I run smart 0.41 on a SuSE 10.0/x86_64 box (python-2.4.1-3). All  
> went well for 2
> days (thanks loki), today I only get "Segmentation fault" when I  
> enter "smart
> update". smart --gui crashes without further notice. In /var/log/ 
> messages I see
> "Segmentation fault" and nothing more. Where can I look for the  
> reason? There is
> nothing like smart.log or python.log in /var/log/
>

Hmmm, most segfaults wrto rpm tools are from data in an rpmdb.

Does "rpm -qa -vv" segfault? That command will check SHA1 digests for  
all headers in an rpmdb.

Otherwise some hint of what is segfaultin, perhpas by using strace,  
is what is needed.

73 de Jeff