Bug#348513: Segfault in Perl(-tk) script (was: Bug#348513: tetex-doc: tetexdoctk fails with "Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc")

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Joshua, hi Perl(-tk) maintainers,

Joshua Lee <joshua613@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 03:10:42PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Joshua Lee <joshua613@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Package: tetex-doc
>> > Version: 3.0-11
>> > Severity: important
>> >
>> > texdoctk says "Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc." 
>> > then has a segmentation fault. 
>> 
>> If a perl script fails to open a file, it shouldn't give a *segfault*.
>> Can you please send us the exact output?
>
> Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc.
> Segmentation fault

If I remove the file on my (sarge or sid) system, I get a Tk-window
saying

,----
|                               FATAL ERROR
|         Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc.
|                                   Kill
`----

The "Kill" is in a button, and when I press it the perl script even
exits with zero exit code.  It seems as if your perl installation has a
problem.

Please send us the output of

dpkg -l perl
dpkg -l perl-tk

There are a couple of segfaults reported against perl, but I don't have
the experience to test whether this is a new one.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)