Bug#982245: reportbug crashes during initial configuration
(Please keep the bug in cc.)
On 07.02.2021 19.01, Mikael Petersson wrote:
> Den sön 7 feb. 2021 kl 18:49 skrev Nis Martensen
> Even if you did not type such a non-ascii address into reportbug, it may
> have picked it up from any of the REPORTBUGEMAIL, DEBEMAIL, or EMAIL
> environment variables, leading to the crash. Were any of these variables
> defined on your system when you invoked reportbug?
>
>
> No, none of these environment variables are defined.
>
> And note that I didn't try to enter any e-mail address at all. I only
> selected that reportbug will have direct Internet access. The crash came
> directly after I answered this question.
The crash happened when reportbug tried to guess the email address
before asking you to confirm/enter it.
If none of these variables were set, do you have any non-ascii
characters in your /etc/passwd entry or in a corresponding entry in
/etc/email-adresses?
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