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Bug#568381: debconf segfauls with DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text



tags 568381 pending
thanks

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:52:23PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:07:50PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 February 2010, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > > Marko Jung reported that d-i segfaults when you use
> > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text.  I can reproduce this.
> > 
> > I've traced this to Colin's commit that adds the "passthrough" frontend 
> > (r59807). If I revert that the text frontend works fine again.
> > 
> > It may possibly have something to do with the progress bar STEP increasing 
> > to a value higher than the specified maximum, but that's a guess.
> > 
> > Someone more at home in C than I will have to look deeper than that.
> > 
> > Colin, do you have time?
> 
> I should have time today.  Grabbing a current image now.

Fixed in r62177.  I've asked Otavio on IRC if it's OK to upload this,
since I don't want to inadvertently stomp on d-i release preparation.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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