Re: Bug#80360: seemingly reproducable dpkg segfault
On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 12:54:32AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Adam Heath wrote:
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> > If you add -o Debug::pkgDPkgPM=true, and then run the displayed dpkg commands
> > by hand, it works fine, no segfault. It's only when run under apt that dpkg
> > has problems.
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> If it can be run from the shell then why can't it be run from APT too?
>
> > <BenC> aha
> > <BenC> argv is bad, I'm sure
> > <BenC> I bet there's a string that apt isn't writing a NULL byte at the end
> > of one of the argv params
>
> Can't be.. particularly if the patch below fixes it.. After that if argv
> is bad then maybe it is glibc?
Either that or apt/dpkg is doing something to corrupt the arguments.
Some one who understands how to debug the arg list needs to check into
this. I might have time after the holidays.
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