PEAR segfaulting

Typing 'pear segmentation fault' in Google produces tons of responses so I know I'm not the only one with this issue, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what the problem is and how to fix it. I rolled my own PHP 5.3.0 from source. Compilation went fine, no errors. Installation went without any errors. I can run 'pecl' and install some packages, but when I try to run 'pear', it segfaults after it downloads a package: -------------------- $ pear install DB WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2" downloading DB-1.7.13.tgz ... Starting to download DB-1.7.13.tgz (132,246 bytes) .............................done: 132,246 bytes Segmentation fault -------------------- Running it with -vvv gives me: -------------------- $ pear -vvv install DB Warning: file_exists(): Unable to find the wrapper "channel" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in PEAR/Downloader/Package.php on line 1510 Warning: is_file(): Unable to find the wrapper "channel" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in PEAR/Downloader/Package.php on line 1520 Warning: is_file(): Unable to find the wrapper "channel" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in PEAR/Downloader/Package.php on line 1520 WARNING: "pear/DB" is deprecated in favor of "pear/MDB2" pear/DB: Skipping required dependency "pear/PEAR" version 1.9.0, already installed as version 1.8.0 Downloading "http://pear.php.net/get/DB-1.7.13.tgz" downloading DB-1.7.13.tgz ... Starting to download DB-1.7.13.tgz (132,246 bytes) .............................done: 132,246 bytes Segmentation fault -------------------- So, is this a known issue? -- A