From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050915 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.beta1 Firefox/1.4 Description of problem: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1209203024 (LWP 13039)] 0x007bc9f3 in PySys_SetArgv () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 (gdb) bt #0 0x007bc9f3 in PySys_SetArgv () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 #1 0x007bfdad in Py_Main () from /usr/lib/libpython2.4.so.1.0 #2 0x0804859a in main () Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): python-2.4.1-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run python with no arguments. Additional info:
I'm seeing this too, same version: python-2.4.1-10 Running python scripts seems to work. (gdb) bt #0 0x003899f3 in PySys_SetArgv (argc=1, argv=0xbfe396c8) at Python/sysmodule.c:1192 #1 0x0038cdad in Py_Main (argc=0, argv=0xbfe396c4) at Modules/main.c:459 #2 0x0804859a in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfe396c4) at Modules/python.c:23 #ifdef HAVE_CANONICALIZE_FILE_NAME 1190 int errnum; 1191 1192 if (argv[0][0] == '\0') (gdb) print argv $18 = (char **) 0xbfe396c8 (gdb) print argv[0] $19 = 0x0 (gdb) print argv[0][0] Cannot access memory at address 0x0
Seems to be fixed in python-2.4.1-13
Fixed in rawhide, closing.