user [EMAIL PROTECTED] usertag 173975 pending-close found 173975 1.13.25 thanks
#173975 - [SEGFAULT] dpkg: debug message causes segfault when installing http://bugs.debian.org/173975 Hello, Thanks for reporting this, and sorry for the huge delay. (The state of the dpkg BTS page makes it hard to keep track of bugs and even harder to work on older ones). I don't think this is a dpkg bug. First, notice that dpkg actually continues running for a short while, with the error message: subprocess post-installation script killed by signal (Segmentation fault) This seems to indicate a problem with the package's postisnt script, rather than with dpkg. Indeed, lib/mlib.c shows that this is what happens (and happens only) when the forked process is wait()ed on, and its exit status indicates that it was killed, by a signal (and in this case helpfull indicates that core was dumped). Notice also that the debug output by preexecscript is: if (f_debug & dbg_scripts) { fprintf(stderr,"D0%05o: fork/exec %s (",dbg_scripts,path); while (*++argv) fprintf(stderr," %s",*argv); fputs(" )\n",stderr); } Here, argv[0] is never dereferenced; the pointer is incremented first. I think this bug can be closed, or at least reassigned from dpkg? Justin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
