From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: when regenerating/checking tripwire database the application will segfault when it gets to a directory tree with UID/GUID not on the system (displayed as integer not name). Assigning UID/GUID resolves problem Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tripwire-2.3.1-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.untar files from another system tar'd from a non existing UID/GUID 2.regenerate tripwire db 3.wait for segfault Actual Results: segfault Expected Results: Error handling with human readable output Additional info: In the specific scenario i was working in the directory had been untar'd into /root tripwire failed from the day the tarball was extracted....
This sequence WORKSFORME with tripwire-2.3.1-15: (/root/.gnome_private originally missing) cd /root touch .gnome_private chown 12345.12345 .gnome_private Reopen with more info, please, if the above does not reproduce your problem.