Bug#378753: tetex-bin: texshow sometimes segfaults

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

found 348513 804.027-5
thanks

Dear Perl-TK maintainer,

while investigating a segfault with an other perl-tk script in
tetex-bin, we found that this old bug has not been fixed, or rather
unfixed again:

Helge Kreutzmann <debian@helgefjell.de> wrote:

>> FYI, there was once an other Perl-TK segfault in tetex-bin,
>> http://bugs.debian.org/348513 
>
> I've read this now. So I'll provide the info from there, in case it is
> useful:
> ii  perl           5.8.8-4        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report
> ii  perl-tk        804.027-5      Perl module providing the Tk graphics librar
> ii  xbase-clients  7.1.ds-2       miscellaneous X clients
>
> The minimal test case in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348513;msg=149
> still segfaults here, although I have the version where this bug is
> allegedly closed. Do you experience this bug still as well?

Yes, same here - a sid chroot on a sarge i386 box with linux 2.6.16 from
backports.org:

frank@sid:~$ cat segfaultTK 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Tk;
my $main = new MainWindow;
my $cmdframe = $main->Frame;
my $b = $cmdframe->Button(-font => undef);
frank@sid:~$ ./segfaultTK 
Segmentation fault
frank@sid:~$ 

Regards, Frank




-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)