Description of problem: Fedora 21 Alpha 0 [branched]. This segfault happens as a result of running the packagekit resident service. Version-Release number of selected component: PackageKit-0.9.4-3.fc21 Additional info: reporter: libreport-2.2.3 backtrace_rating: 4 cmdline: /usr/libexec/packagekitd crash_function: hif_sack_add_sources executable: /usr/libexec/packagekitd kernel: 3.16.0-1.fc21.x86_64 runlevel: N 5 type: CCpp uid: 0 Truncated backtrace: Thread no. 1 (6 frames) #0 hif_sack_add_sources at hif-sack.c:140 #1 hif_context_setup_sack at hif-context.c:803 #2 hif_context_setup at hif-context.c:912 #3 pk_backend_initialize at pk-backend-hif.c:203 #4 pk_backend_load at pk-backend.c:588 #5 pk_engine_load_backend at pk-engine.c:1059
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Confirming. The crash happens repeatedly and frequently. I'm guessing that this will cause gnome-software to not function properly too.
Filing upstream https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83078
According to the retrace server, this crash last occurred more than 6 months ago on 2014-09-03 and is thus likely to have been fixed with a package update. Please reopen if you can reproduce it.