On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:54:32AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Adam Heath wrote: > > > If you add -o Debug::pkgDPkgPM=true, and then run the displayed dpkg > > commands > > by hand, it works fine, no segfault. It's only when run under apt that dpkg > > has problems. > > > If it can be run from the shell then why can't it be run from APT too? > > > <BenC> aha > > <BenC> argv is bad, I'm sure > > <BenC> I bet there's a string that apt isn't writing a NULL byte at the end > > of one of the argv params > > Can't be.. particularly if the patch below fixes it.. After that if argv > is bad then maybe it is glibc?
Either that or apt/dpkg is doing something to corrupt the arguments. Some one who understands how to debug the arg list needs to check into this. I might have time after the holidays. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
