Bug#344082: tetex-bin: fmtutil segfault

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Matthias, hi Emmanuel,
>
> again a shell script that segfaults.  Could 344082 and 343444 be the
> same bugs?  

It turned out that theo other bug, 34344, was a segfault in the program
that was called on the respective line in the script.  So I guess we can
assume that in this case it isn't bash, either.

> Line 344 is the opening brace `{' in 
>
> ###############################################################################
> # verbose (cmd)
> #   execute cmd. Redirect output depending on $mktexfmtMode.
> ###############################################################################
> verbose()
> {
>   $mktexfmtMode && ${1+"$@"} >&2 || ${1+"$@"}
> }

I assume that the problem persists on your system, i.e. if you try to
configure tetex-bin it happens again?  If that is true, can you please
try "fmtutil-sys --all" - does this also give the segfault?  If that
happens, please run

sh -x /usr/bin/fmtutil-sys --all 2>&1 | tee fmtutil.debug

and send us the resulting file fmtutil.debug.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer