Bug#189058: base-installer segfaults during install
Hello Chris!
Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 11:23:48PM -0400, Joe Nahmias wrote:
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> > Also, poking around, I noticed that debootstrap writes an error log
> > file into /target/var/log/debootstrap.err.log. This file contains:
> >
> > ==========8<=====================
> > id: unknown user name: 0
> > [: 0: unknown operand
> > printf: No such file or directory
> > printf: No such file or directory
> > ==========>8=====================
> >
> > I guess this means that `id` in busybox-cvs is broken. You can
> > reproduce this by running `id` from the shell on vc2. Should I file a
> > bug??
>
> Definitely, I think you found it.
Submitted! Bug #189309.
> > After this, I added a "set -x" to /usr/sbin/debootstrap and reran the
> > base-installer. Boy, did I get alot of output!! Anyways, it seems that
> > the segfault happens in a call to just_get() which is defined in
> > /usr/lib/debootstrap/functions. It is called as:
> >
> > `just_get http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz /target/debootstrap.invalid_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages.gz`
> >
> > After setting the "from" and "dest" variables, it does a `mkdir -p
> > /target` and then does the tests on lines 169 and 171 and then
> > segfaults _before_ calling wgetprogress (apparently, since it doesn't
> > print the call to it).
>
> Anthony will appreciate your summarization in a debootstrap bug.
> Sounds like you've got it nailed down to the line number.
OK. I cloned/retitled/reassigned this bug to debootstrap (Bug #189311).
Now, what should be done with this bug? Leave it until the underlying
issues are addressed or close it?
Thanks for your assistance!
Joe Nahmias, DD wannabe
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