Bug#699205: linux-image-3.7-trunk-amd64: ps, pgrep and pkill segfault after upgrade from 3.7.1-1~experimental.2 to 3.7.3-1~experimental.1

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Sascha,

Sascha Silbe wrote:

> after updating the linux-image-3.7-trunk-amd64 from
> 3.7.1-1~experimental.2 to 3.7.3-1~experimental.1 today and rebooting,
> the tools ps, pgrep and pkill (package procps) are always segfaulting:

Just to check: if you downgrade to 3.7.1 again, do the segfaults go
away?  (Historical versions of Debian packages are available from
http://snapshot.debian.org)

[...]
> I'll try to provide a backtrace at the end of the week if noone else
> can reproduce this in the meantime; debugging this issue is a pain as
> it requires reboots, especially since the procps test suite runs (and
> fails) despite 'nocheck' in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.

Sounds like http://bugs.debian.org/656508

>                                                 A pre-built -dbg
> package would have been nice.

Sounds worth a separate report. :)

>                               I wonder what got of the Squeeze release
> goal "Automatic creation of debug packages for the entire archive"...

I know that for my library package (liblzma) I haven't bothered but
would be happy to take care of it if I knew there were a push for this
systemwide.  Might be worth starting a discussion on debian-policy@.

Thanks,
Jonathan