Bug#892309: groff: crash (SIGSYS) when running `man man | head -n1`

2018-03-17 Thread Colin Watson
Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 01:20:49PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 13:38 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Hmm, this doesn't seem to show a SIGSYS, and man exited 0. > > I added some debugging to groff and looked at the code. > > It seems that groff pa

Bug#892309: groff: crash (SIGSYS) when running `man man | head -n1`

2018-03-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 13:38 +, Colin Watson wrote: > Hmm, this doesn't seem to show a SIGSYS, and man exited 0. I added some debugging to groff and looked at the code. It seems that groff passes on a SIGPIPE it receives to its children via kill(pids[j], SIGPIPE) but man-db does not allow it

Bug#892309: groff: crash (SIGSYS) when running `man man | head -n1`

2018-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 09:25:05PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 10:03 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > They aren't useful, but I'm not sure why that means I should close > > the bug. > > It is a standard line to get grumpy people who don't like people who > report crashes to ignor

Bug#892309: groff: crash (SIGSYS) when running `man man | head -n1`

2018-03-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 10:03 +, Colin Watson wrote: > They aren't useful, but I'm not sure why that means I should close > the bug. It is a standard line to get grumpy people who don't like people who report crashes to ignore them instead of getting grumpy. > Reassigning to man-db since this

Bug#892309: groff: crash (SIGSYS) when running `man man | head -n1`

2018-03-08 Thread Colin Watson
Control: reassign -1 man-db On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 01:07:26PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > I get a crash (SIGSYS) in groff when running `man man | head -n1`. > If the below output and backtrace are not useful, please close this bug. They aren't useful, but I'm not sure why that means I should close

Bug#892309: groff: crash (SIGSYS) when running `man man | head -n1`

2018-03-07 Thread Paul Wise
Package: groff-base Version: 1.22.3-10 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/groff Usertags: crash I get a crash (SIGSYS) in groff when running `man man | head -n1`. If the below output and backtrace are not useful, please close this bug. This is unaffected by my setting of MANPATH, MALLOC_CHECK_ & MALL