Bug#220841: marked as done (dpkg: install-info segmentation fault)
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Subject: dpkg: install-info segmentation fault
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.9.21
Severity: normal
$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 225 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Reading changelogs... Done
Setting up glibc-doc (2.3.2.ds1-10) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/glibc-doc.postinst: line 19: 10303 Segmentation fault install-info --quiet --section "GNU C library functions" "GNU C library functions" /usr/share/info/libc-dir-add.info
dpkg: error processing glibc-doc (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
Errors were encountered while processing:
glibc-doc
$ sudo install-info --quiet --section "GNU C library functions" "GNU C library functions" /usr/share/info/libc-dir-add.info
Segmentation fault
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux eeyore 2.5.52 #5 SMP Tue Jan 14 14:09:03 MST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-19 The GNU stdc++ library
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Subject: Re: Bug#220841: dpkg: install-info segmentation fault
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.9.21
> Severity: normal
>
> $ sudo apt-get -f install
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 225 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Reading changelogs... Done
> Setting up glibc-doc (2.3.2.ds1-10) ...
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/glibc-doc.postinst: line 19: 10303 Segmentation fault install-info --quiet --section "GNU C library functions" "GNU C library functions" /usr/share/info/libc-dir-add.info
> dpkg: error processing glibc-doc (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 139
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> glibc-doc
>
> $ sudo install-info --quiet --section "GNU C library functions" "GNU C library functions" /usr/share/info/libc-dir-add.info
> Segmentation fault
This is due to a change in perl, that exposed a recursion bug in earlier
install-infos. This was fixed in 1.10.8.
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