When attempting to use pyrit to calculate PMKs, I sometimes get a segmentation fault when I try to process large dictionary files. "g0tmilk-wordlist" would be the perfect test case for this. The details on that file can be viewed here: http://blog.g0tmi1k.com/2011/06/dictionaries-wordlists.html

The workaround that I have found is here: https://code.google.com/p/pyrit/issues/detail?id=76

The fix for this segmentation fault is very easy. You simply have to invoke the previous version of Python instead of the default version. The default version is 2.7.3. You can confirm this by typing "env python -V" into a terminal window. The workaround for this is to invoke Python 2.6. You would type something like, "/usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/pyrit -i wordlist-file import_passwords". So far this seems to be working with the previously mentioned enormous wordlist file. At the time of this writing, I have successfully imported 4.5 billion passwords into pyrit's database.

If I am not mistaken, doesn't this error relate to the systems stack size? This is only a guess since this fault can be caused by any number of issues.

Low memory
Faulty Ram memory
Fetching huge data set from db using query (size of fetched data is more than swap mem)
wrong query / buggy code
having long loop (multiple recursion)

Is there any setting in the live version of Kali that can be tweaked in order to avoid these segmentation faults? In the meantime, I can just use Python, version 2.6.