Bug#205328: Improvement but...

[Thomas Morin <t0m@free.fr>]

Quote Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>:
 | 
 | I have console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-41, libc6 2.3.2-4, and fonty 1.0-15.

Here I have console-tools 1:0.2.3-23.3, libc6 2.3.2-4, and fonty 1.0-12.

 | Perhaps you could install libc6-dbg, export
 | LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/debug, and generate a new backtrace.  That
 | might yield some additional information.

Here it is :

# gdb /usr/bin/consolechars
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This GDB was configured as "i386-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) run --tty=/dev/tty2 -f iso1-16
Starting program: /usr/bin/consolechars --tty=/dev/tty2 -f iso1-16
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging
symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x400995d3 in _IO_new_fclose (fp=0x804e170) at iofclose.c:66
66      iofclose.c: No such file or directory.
        in iofclose.c
(gdb) bt
#0  0x400995d3 in _IO_new_fclose (fp=0x804e170) at iofclose.c:66
#1  0x4003a04f in _init () from /lib/libctutils.so.0
#2  0x4003a943 in findfile () from /lib/libctutils.so.0
#3  0x4003aeeb in findfont () from /lib/libctutils.so.0
#4  0x0804aa83 in write_as_psf_header ()
#5  0x0804a415 in write_as_psf_header ()
#6  0x40053d04 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8049390
<write_as_psf_header+1080>, argc=4, ubp_av=0x0,
    init=0x8048c40 <_init>, fini=0x804b130 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0xbfffead4,
stack_end=0x0)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:225
(gdb)

I can't reproduce the segfault if I upgrade to console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-41,
but I guess this was quite expected since this bug seems to hit binaries
compiled with older glibc, non ?

Hope this helps...

Cheers,

-tom