is this a bug? erratic segfaults

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
> I've started getting bzr segfaults. Just asking for the help leads to
> a segfault:
> 
> 


I can't tell you exactly what is wrong, but there are only 2 C
extensions we use cElementTree and pycurl (if present). I guess paramiko
might use Crypto if you don't have openssh installed.

Anyway, theoretically, it isn't possible to get a segfault from pure
python code, unless there is a bug in python itself.

I can say that I have gotten segfaults on my Mac, but usually that only
happens when the Mac itself is starting to fail. (Rebooting, and running
the disk repair utility helps get it working again).

So my best guess is that it is something else that is having problems,
and not bzr.

I can say that:
bzr[3848]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 0000000000000000 rsp
0000007fbfffd728 error 14

Sure looks like an illegal dereference of a null pointer. But I have no
real clue as to how we could be causing it.

You might also want a quick look at what plugins you have installed,
though I don't think they would be causing problems either.

John
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