Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.17 Severity: normal In short:
# echo $RANDOM >foo.pid # start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile foo.pid --name foobar Segmentation fault # uname -a GNU dryden 0.2 GNUmach-1.2/Hurd-0.2 i386-AT386 unknown # So far, I tracked it down to pid_is_cmd calling proc_stat_list_pid_proc_stat with the first argument (procset) being NULL, which shouldn't happen. Grepping through the sources, do_procinit() is supposed to initialise this global varible. Yet, that function is not called AFAICS (setting a break point on it in gdb doesn't stop the program). Since I'm not really familiar with start-stop-daemon yet, I don't have a solution, nor an idea how to fix it. I'll try to investigate it further, and will send followups to this bugreport, provided that someone doesn't beat me. Note that the contents of the pidfile doesn't matter, and without the --name argument, it works fine, also without --pidfile foobar, it works too. It just doesn't work with both specified :( Oh, I tried dpkg CVS, and the bug is still present.
