# Summary and Info:
pacman-version: 5.2.1-4
pyalpm-version: 0.9.1-2

I am regularly, but not really reproducably unfortunately, running into a segfault within libalpm.so.12 when used via pyalpm.

I have been running into this issue while writing blinky [0] and at least once this happened when this function [1] was called with 'python-mastodon' as an argument, see the trimmed down example below in the Steps to Reproduce.

[0] https://github.com/cherti/blinky
[1] https://github.com/cherti/blinky/blob/master/blinky/pacman.py#L25


Steps to Reproduce:
This is a little difficult, in *theory*, the following code should trigger the issue (trimmed down blinky-logic to where it triggered in blinky), but doesn't:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import pyalpm, pycman

handle = pycman.config.init_with_config('/etc/pacman.conf')
ldb = handle.get_localdb()
#sdbs.handle.get_syncdb()

s = pyalpm.find_satisfier(ldb.pkgcache, 'python-mastodon')

I haven't even been able to reliably reproduce the issue with blinky, in subsequent repetitions of the same command the segfault sometimes triggers and sometimes does not.

Attached is everything I extracted from coredumpctl so far, in the hope that it might be useful.

If there is anything you need or I could try to investigate the issue further, feel free to get back to me. Any directions of how to pin down the issue further are also greatly appreciated!