Bug#205381: kbd-chooser's postinst exited with status 35584
I removed console-data from my test chroot, and ran kbd-chooser within
gdb to test if I could trigger the crash. Here is the backtrace. I
suspect this is the crash we see when no keyboard data udeb is
installed.
% gdb ./kbd-chooser
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(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/src/debian-installer/tools/kbd-chooser/kbd-chooser
capb backup
0 ok
version 2.0
0 ok
title Select a Keyboard Layout
0 ok
set debian-installer/serial-console no
0 ok
set debian-installer/serial-console no
0 ok
subst console-tools/archs choices [at] PC Style (AT connector)
0 ok
get console-tools/archs
0 [at] PC Style (AT connector)
input low console-tools/archs
0 ok
go
0 ok
get console-tools/archs
0 [at] PC Style (AT connector)
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0804947c in insert_description (
buf=0xbffff6d0 "[us] ýÿ¿8ùÿ¿\021¡\004\b\230Ì\005\b\230Ì\005\b8ùÿ¿D \004\b ", name=0x805cd00 "us", description=0x0) at kbd-chooser.c:214
warning: Source file is more recent than executable.
214 while (*t)
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0804947c in insert_description (
buf=0xbffff6d0 "[us] ýÿ¿8ùÿ¿\021¡\004\b\230Ì\005\b\230Ì\005\b8ùÿ¿D \004\b ", name=0x805cd00 "us", description=0x0) at kbd-chooser.c:214
#1 0x0804a224 in keymap_select (arch=0x805aa98 "at",
keymap=0xbffffb60 "Ðýÿ¿ ûÿ¿\b\001") at kbd-chooser.c:673
#2 0x0804a540 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffdd4) at kbd-chooser.c:757
(gdb)
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