[packagekit] Apt backend - PkPackageId annoyance

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 01:55:29 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 23:14 +0200, Patrick Niklaus wrote:
> >
> > Crashing is never good, apologies. There's a couple of bugfixes in git
> > master that might fix this. If you can get a backtrace I can be sure.
> >
> 
> I attached the backtrace. It is not too helpful, but I was able to
> narrow it down to line 372 in gpk-application.c:
> 
> repo_name = (const gchar *) g_hash_table_lookup
> (application->priv->repos, ident->data);
> 
> Which is reasonable, since ident->data is NULL and doing a hash tabel
> lookup on NULL will result in a segmentation fault.

Correct, how silly of me. I've protected that in git, which should fix
the bug. Many thanks for tracking this one down.

Richard.





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