Re: bsdutils: script crashes the machine horribly

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

Anyone got time to look into this?

Bdale

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• To: Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de>, 167449@bugs.debian.org
• Cc: kernel-source-2.4.19-hppa@packages.debian.org
• Subject: Re: bsdutils: script crashes the machine horribly
• From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
• Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:45:17 +1100
• Message-id: <20021122114516.GA22877@gondor.apana.org.au>
• In-reply-to: <20021102145822.0937C13EBD@gecko.dyndns.org>
• References: <20021102145822.0937C13EBD@gecko.dyndns.org>

reassign 167449 kernel-source-2.4.19-hppa
quit

On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 03:58:21PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> Package: bsdutils
> Version: 1:2.11u-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> This is ugly. Today I was checking if aptitude was still buggy on
> Debian/HPPA and so I started up "script" to capture the debugging
> session for "gdb aptitude":
> 
> % script
> Script started, file is typescript
> 
> Then I pressed Return to get my propt back. Instead of getting the
> prompt, the machine froze and rebooted about 10s later.

Anything that causes the machine to spontaneously reboot is either
a hardware bug or a kernel bug.
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