Got this from a Debian user, strange it only died on the alpha.
- Craig
----- Forwarded message from Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
Package: lprng
Version: 3.7.4-1
Invoking /usr/sbin/lpd on an Alpha running up-to-date testing causes
an immediate segmentation fault, like this:
# /usr/sbin/lpd
Segmentation fault
This problem also causes the installation of the package to fail:
Installing new version of config file /etc/lprng/lpd.perms ...
Starting printer spooler: /etc/init.d/lprng: line 98: 25617
Segmentation fault start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile
$PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
dpkg: error processing lprng (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
lprng
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I have tracked down this problem in the debugger, and have included a
one-liner patch below. The problem is that the configuration option
"direct" is defined to be a STRING_K type in the table listing all
such options, but it is really an integer. When code tries to clean
up the list of configuration options, it tries to free memory that was
never malloced. This error causes a segfault on Alpha, and probably
causes undetected harm on other platforms.
Patch follows inline.
Thanks,
-Doug
--- src/common/vars.c~ Mon Jan 15 16:04:15 200
+++ src/common/vars.c Mon Jan 15 16:47:46 2001
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@
/* printers that we should query for status information */
{ "destinations", 0, STRING_K, &Destinations_DYN,0,0},
/* allow LPR to make direct socket connection to printer */
-{ "direct", 0, STRING_K, &Direct_DYN,0,0},
+{ "direct", 0, INTEGER_K, &Direct_DYN,0,0},
/* drop root permissions after binding to listening port */
{ "drop_root", 0, FLAG_K, &Drop_root_DYN,0,0},
/* exit linger timeout to wait for socket to close */
--
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