Your message dated Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:20:41 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1122570: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #249415,
regarding slrnface now segfaults with xterm from X 4.3
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Package: slrnface
Version: 2.1.1-4
Severity: normal
slrnface now segfaults some time after forking into the background
after slrn starts it (I suspect X 4.3, since it broke first on one
machine using 4.3, and still worked on a 4.2 machine, but is now
broken for both machines, since both are 4.3).
I haven't come anywhere near tracing the cause: I can't trace it with
strace, because once it forks, either I loose the output (if I don't
supply strace with '-f'), or control can't be returned to slrn (if I
used strace -f (I tried background the slrnface process to no avail)).
I tried starting and stracing a renamed slrnface in the background so
it could create the pipe, and then let slrn spawn an empty bash
script, but the slrn session hangs forever. As such, the strace output
is probably useless, because all it shows is a fork occurring, and
then an infinite wait on poll() on the pipe.
Any other way I can debug this?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-pre7
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU
Versions of packages slrnface depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcompfaceg1 1989.11.11-24 Compress/decompress images for mai
ii slrn 0.9.8.0-12 threaded news reader (fast for slo
ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.1.1-7+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package slrnface has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1122570
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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