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FS#787 - pacman segfaults when gethostbyname fails

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 19:17 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

This happened with a default resolv.conf (no entries).

# pacman -S rsync

Targets: rsync-2.6.0-2

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]

:: Retrieving packages from current...
gethostbyname: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot connect to ftp.archlinux.org
gethostbyname: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot connect to ftp.oit.unc.edu
gethostbyname: Resource temporarily unavailable
<snip hosts>
gethostbyname: Resource temporarily unavailable
error: cannot connect to darkstar.ist.utl.pt
Segmentation fault


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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Tuesday, 27 April 2004, 19:30 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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