segmentation fault on slackware 9

[Ludovico Magnocavallo]

I just installed MySQLdb 0.9.2 from source on a slackware 9 box, and it segfaults as soon as I perform a query using cursor.execute().

The box is running

mysql  Ver 12.18 Distrib 4.0.12, for pc-linux (i686)

Python 2.2.3 (#1, Jul 23 2003, 19:35:07)
[GCC 3.2.2] on linux2

The strange thing is, Mysql is working perfectly alone or from php, and I already installed MySQLdb on a similar box at work (slack 9, etc) with no problems.

anything I can do to troubleshoot this?

[Ludovico Magnocavallo]

recompiled mysql from source instead of using .rpm files and all is well now (apart from MySQLdb looking for mysql.sock in the wrong place)

[Anonymous]

I am also running slackware 9 and was bedazzled with this segmentation fault.  I had just installed mysql from source so that wasn't the problem, so I installed python 2.3.2 instead of the default 2.2.2, but that didn't help.  Finally I installed mysql-python 0.9.1 instead of 0.9.2 since I read something about it working better.  This and copying the mysql libraries solved the problem.  Also made a link to mysql.sock so I didn't have to use unix_socket.