From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040225 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: When using rpmbuild -bp on spec file or rpmbuild --rebuild on a src rpm file, then rpmbuild always crashes with a segmentation fault. This problem always occurs. At first I thought that maybe the package I used has some errors, but then trying other packages, always the same problem arises. I have a nearly clean Fedora Core install with only a few packages from Fedora.us and a few other packages (mainly audio and video related applications and libraries) from FreshRPMs installed. Beyond this I have also installed the mono packages from Ximian. I am not sure, if this problem also occurs immediately after the installation of Fedora Core. But I don't know with which appl/libs rpmbuild could have problems. The package I would to build is the alsa-driver package. I build a new kernel yesterday, because I need NTFS filesystem support by the kernel to access (read-only) some of my data which is located on a NTFS partition I had to use over the last few years. But then I also need to compile a new alsa-driver package, or include the package in the kernel. There may be other ways in this case to accomplish this task, but the problem does still exist with other packages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-build-4.2.1-0.30 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. call rpmbuild --rebuild alsa-driver-1.0.2c-1.fr.src.rpm 2. 3. Actual Results: Program output: Segmentation fault after that the prompt appears. Expected Results: My package should have been compiled and a binary package should have been built. Additional info: see description of the bug.
Can you supply a URL to exactly the alsa src.rpm that you are trying to build so that I can try to reproduce?
Could it be this one? http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/1/alsa-driver/alsa-driver-1.0.2c-1.fr.src.rpm
yep that's the right one
I suspect that this problem is (or rather was) due to other causes than rpm flaws. Feel free to reopen if my guess is wrong.