Bug#562832: /usr/bin/info: crashes when invoked with -k (apropos mode)

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 28.12.09 Serafeim Zanikolas (serzan@hellug.gr) wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 02:27:49PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote [edited]:
> > On 28.12.09 Serafeim Zanikolas (serzan@hellug.gr) wrote:

Hi TeX maintainers,

> > The only difference between your and my system:
> > 
> > > Versions of packages info depends on:
> > > ii  install-info              4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in 
> > > ii  libc6                     2.9-23         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> > > ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
> > > 
> > is the outdated libc6 version. Even testing has a newer one. Could
> > you upgrade and try again?
> 
> The problem remains after upgrading:
> 
> $ LC_MESSAGES=C apt-cache policy libc6
> libc6:
>   Installed: 2.10.2-2
>   Candidate: 2.10.2-2
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.10.2-2 0
>         100 http://ftp.be.debian.org unstable/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> 
> I'm more than happy to provide any other input.
> 
How to go from here? My next suggestion would be to request an gdb
trace and forward the problem to the texinfo maintainers.

I found another occurrence of this problem:
https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=32296 , which was closed as
"old bug".

H.
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