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pamac-manager segfaults

Hello,

Starting a couple of days ago, pamac-manager is crashing with a segfault.
I can , however, start it from command line with a parameter ( pamac-manager --updates ) and it opens on the updates page, where I can perform the refresh and updates normally.
Navigating on the Installed page works as expected as well.
Navigating on the Browse page, however, results in a segfault . I do not get any meaningful output when running with strace.

I looked at the installed packages versions and there seems to be a discrepancy (not sure if it is normal):
- pamac from galaxy is at version 11.7.1-1
- libpamac from galaxy is at version 11.6.4-4

Is there a conflict introduced by the latest updates of GTK libraries ?

Re: pamac-manager segfaults

Reply #2 –
Hi. I pushed new version for pamac (11.7.3-1) and libpamac (11.7.3-1) to galaxy-gremlins repo, can you test it please?

Re: pamac-manager segfaults

Reply #3 –
Quote from: marzosh – on
Hi. I pushed new version for pamac (11.7.3-1) and libpamac (11.7.3-1) to galaxy-gremlins repo, can you test it please?
Hi @marzosh , thank you for the update.
I installed the new version from galaxy-gremlins and I get exactly the same behavior :
- direct launch of pamac-manager results in a segfault
- launch with pamac-manager --updates opens the window with the Updates tab active; I can search for updates, refresh updates and visit the Installed tab where I can use Search ; as soon as I click on Browse tab, pamac-manager stops with a segfault.

Is there a way to enable meaningful traces to catch where the problem lies ?

Re: pamac-manager segfaults

Reply #4 –
Couldn't reproduce your problem on a clean setup here – Artix repos (system, world, galaxy) worked fine. Try this: back up your config (if you have), wipe pamac and libpamac, then reinstall from scratch and update.

Re: pamac-manager segfaults

Reply #5 –
@marzosh Your reply gave me an idea - I manually edited the config file (~/.config/pamac/config) and set the software_mode flag to true.
After that, pamac-manager started without segfault and I could change all tabs.
I disabled the software mode from the GUI, closed and started again pamac-manager and this time it started normally, without any segfault.

I have inspected the config file before modification and it seems identical to the current one.

Weird - but hey, it works!

Thank you for the time spent so far !
 

Re: pamac-manager segfaults

Reply #6 –
Good idea, glad it worked! I’ll go ahead and mark this as resolved then.