#1146850 transmission-gtk: When deleting torrents, transmission-gtk sometimes dies with a segfault

Package:
transmission-gtk
Source:
transmission-gtk
Description:
lightweight BitTorrent client (GTK+ interface)
Submitter:
Martin Guy
Date:
2026-09-06 11:51:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1146850#5
Date:
2026-09-06 11:48:47 UTC
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To:
Once every few days, when I delete a torrent and its files,
transmission-gtk dies for no reason. Having run it from the
command line, I have a core from it and gdb says:

Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--
#0  0x00007f8f695cf970 in ?? ()
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f8f715fd6c0 (LWP 1108121))]
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007f8f695cf970 in ??? ()
#1  0x00005611f358376e in ??? ()
#2  0x00005611f35dbb3e in ??? ()
#3  0x00007f8f9a565a4e in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevent-2.1.so.7
#4  0x00007f8f9a56613f in event_base_loop ()
    at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libevent-2.1.so.7
#5  0x00005611f35db914 in ??? ()
#6  0x00007f8f982e1224 in ??? () at /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
#7  0x00007f8f9809eb7b in start_thread (arg=<optimized out>)
    at ./nptl/pthread_create.c:448
#8  0x00007f8f9811c7f8 in __GI___clone3 ()
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone3.S:78
(gdb)