Re: parted bug #58853
>Hi,
>
>I am the maintainer for GNU parted, and something in the dist changed
>around feb 21-23 which broke parted. Parted now segfaults as it starts
>up, in libc function towlower (). This worked fine before the 21st Feb,
>so something has changed within that time, and the only thing that parted
>depends on which has changed is e2fsprogs (which can't be the problem,
>since it never gets to execute any e2fs code, and if you build parted
>with ./configure --disable-nls it doesn't segfault) and libc6.
>
>Has something changed? Please get back to me. I've included a gdb
>backtrace. I don't know if any other nls programs have been affected,
>so maybe there's something wrong with the way parted is using nls, but
>it seems strange that this has never happened before ...
This was indeed a glibc bug, it is fixed in upstream 2.1.3 final (Debian
2.1.3-5).
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Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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