strange yaourt behavior

[leongm]

Hi there,

$ yaourt -Ss perl cups
/usr/lib/yaourt/util.sh : ligne 166 : 7394 Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)package-query "${PKGQUERY_C_ARG[@]}" "$@"

while

$ yaourt -Ss cups perl
1 aur/perl-net-cups 0.61-1 (3)
Common Unix Printing System Interface

[The-Compiler]

See #133, #146, #152 and archlinuxfr/package-query#13 😉

It was fixed in archlinuxfr/package-query#14

[kgleason]

Is it possible that this (or one of the other referenced issues) has regressed?

When I run yaourt -Syyua --noconfirm I get a core dump. I also get it when I run without --noconfirm

/usr/lib/yaourt/util.sh: line 166: 2635 Illegal instruction (core dumped) package-query "${PKGQUERY_C_ARG[@]}" "$@"

Been happening for 2 days now. I can run sudo pacman -Syyu with no issue.

I'd love to help troubleshoot, but I'm not familiar enough with the inner workings of yaourt and package-query to know where to start.

UPDATE:
It seems that I don't get the error message when I run without --noconfirm. However in both cases, yaourt exits with a 0.

[f2404]

What versions of yaourt and package-query are you using?

UP: Seems to be working fine for me on the -git versions of both.

[kgleason]

Well the output of the first command here seems odd

kirk@kirkdt:$ yaourt -V
yaourt
homepage: http://archlinux.fr/yaourt-en
kirk@kirkdt:$ package-query -v
package-query 1.8
kirk@kirkdt:~$ sudo pacman -Q yaourt
yaourt 1.7-2

[f2404]

Does the crash happen on running yaourt -Ss perl cups as mentioned above?

[f2404]

@kgleason I cannot reproduce your issue even after having installed yaourt-1.7 and package-query-1.8 - release versions.

UP Is the issue reproducible when using the default yaourtrc config?

[kgleason]

yes it does happen ...

$ yaourt -Ss perl cups
/usr/lib/yaourt/util.sh: line 166: 20484 Illegal instruction (core dumped) package-query "${PKGQUERY_C_ARG[@]}" "$@"

However, unlike the original reporter, I do get the exception when I run it the other way:

$ yaourt -Ss cups perl
/usr/lib/yaourt/util.sh: line 166: 21656 Illegal instruction (core dumped) package-query "${PKGQUERY_C_ARG[@]}" "$@"

If I should open a new issue for this, please let me know. I'll be happy to.

[larchunix]

The error message looks weird to me. IIUC, Illegal instruction means SIGILL.

Did you compile package-query on another machine or with special compilation flags ?

[kgleason]

@larchunix I didn't even know that package-query was installed, so it was most likely installed by yaourt or pacman as a dependency.

@f2404 I haven't modified the yaourtrc file, so as far as I know it is stock.

[kgleason]

@larchunix There are other issues that have the same error, but they all seem to be somewhat aged.

[larchunix]

@kgleason Could you run bash -x yaourt -Ss perl cups and copy/paste the exact command line used to invoke package-query which raises this error ?

[kgleason]

I see in the topic of #archlinux on FreeNode that "yaourt is broken. You'll need package-query-git". Trying that now

[kgleason]

Here you go.

• pkgquery -s -S -s -A -- perl cups
• package-query --aur-url https://aur.archlinux.org -s -S -s -A -- perl cups
  /usr/lib/yaourt/util.sh: line 166: 22604 Illegal instruction (core dumped) package-query "${PKGQUERY_C_ARG[@]}" "$@"
• ret=132

[kgleason]

package-query-git seems to have resolved it for now.

[f2404]

package-query-git seems to have resolved it for now.

That's indeed strange as the git version currently has almost no changes comparing to the 1.8 release version which you seem to have been using...

[kgleason]

I was going to try to test on my laptop, which is more or less the same config as this machine, but it seems to be having some hardware issues right now.

[f2404]

Ok, please keep us posted.

[f2404]

@kgleason Were you able to test it?