Re: [Cooker] rpmdrake-1.3-28mdk.i586.rpm is segfaulting all over the place

[Giles Hamlin]

Mine has segfaulted this way since around build 22 or 24, and for some time I haven't been able to run it as root - it segfaults halfway through analysing media - I asked repeatedly for assistance in location the configuration files to the sources I had specified, but received no help, and with build 28, a box started appearing saying that I hadn't specified a security mirror even though I had. However, when this box appeared if I said yes to the question "do I want to specify a mirror now?" and then hit cancel to the following dialog box I was able to get into RPMDrake without segfaults, but more or less anything I then did to specify mirrors caused it to segfault.

I have, however, had no problems running RPMDrake as name, and have performed several updates this way, with no segfaults, and no security mirror prompts.

I don't know, though, if this is because of the root / named user difference or because of the different desktops - I run KDE as root and Gnome as name, and I haven't yet had time to test it as Gnome/root and KDE/name.

Whilst I have your attention - can someone PLEASE update the Evolution RPMs to fix the "unable to open composer window" bug?

Take Care

Giles

Brian J. Murrell wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 01:11:36PM +0200, David Odin wrote:

  Do you have a _reproductible_ way of making rpmdrake segfaulting?

Start up MandrakeUpdate, add a "Cooker" medium, choose the
ftp.grolier.fr mirror then choose Update Medium.  Boom.  Segfault.

If I restart MandrakeUpdate it goes further than I have gotten it to
before.

It's still falling way short of the mark however.  In MandrakeUpdate
(Cooker->Updates Only) mode it shows only a small fraction of the
packages that an "old style" MandrakeUpdate lists available
for update.  My "old style" MandrakeUpdate shows 60 or 70 packages
that have updates rpmdrake shows about 15.

b.

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