Bug#561089: ispell: segfaults on checking any file
Package: ispell
Version: 3.1.20.0-7
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
When I try to spell check any file ispell simply segfaults. When I
invoke it without arguments it prints the help text. To find out whether
this was a recent regression I downgraded the package, but that did not
help. This indicates that the cause may be unrelated to ispell. I also
ran gdb on a core file from ispell, but the traceback did not reveal
anything useful. Running strace in ispell shows that it uses curses to
set up the terminal and then segfaults right after reading the file to
be checked.
Is there anything else I can do to help diagnose this?
Helmut
-- System Information:
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ispell depends on:
ii dictionaries-common 1.4.0 Common utilities for spelling dict
ii dpkg 1.15.5.4 Debian package management system
ii ingerman [ispell-dictiona 20091006-2 New German orthography dictionary
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
Versions of packages ispell recommends:
ii wamerican [wordlist] 6-3 American English dictionary words
ii wngerman [wordlist] 20091006-2 New German orthography wordlist
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