FS#9186 - pacman segfault when the cachedir is not valid or writable

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Xavier (shining) - Sunday, 13 January 2008, 10:31 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 13 January 2008, 18:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To Xavier (shining)
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority High
Reported Version 3.1.0
Due in Version 3.1.1
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
When the cachedir specified is not usable, pacman will segfault when trying to fallback to /tmp/

Steps to Reproduce:
remove the write permission to the cache dir :
chmod a-w /var/cache/pacman/pkg
or put a broken symlink there :
mv /var/cache/pacman/pkg /var/cache/pacman/pkg_old && ln -s foo /var/cache/pacman/pkg

Then install a package :
pacman -S pacman

Also reported on bbs : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=316677
   0004-util.c-fix-segfault-when... (1.2 KiB)
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Sunday, 13 January 2008, 18:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  http://projects.archlinux.org/git/gitweb .cgi?p=pacman.git;a=commit;h=ab506f77c04 a481782d9e53c6a285227f58f5cf7
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Sunday, 13 January 2008, 17:22 GMT
Pulled into my working tree, and this will definitely make it into pacman 3.1.1.

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