Bug#747519: bibtool: "Symbol does not start with a letter" random errors with pipe
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Hi Again,
On 02/03/15 14:46, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2015-03-02 13:34:30 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> I can reproduce the issue on my laptop too,
>> but the upstream could not reproduce it on his virtual box.
>> Have you try your material on a virtual box ?
>
> I have a virtual machine with Ubuntu 14.04, but I can't reproduce the
> bug on it (the bibtool version is not the cause, since I can reproduce
> the bug on a Debian 7.8 machine, which has the same bibtool version).
>
> Note also that I can't reproduce the bug when bibtool is run under
> valgrind (by adding "valgrind" in front of the bibtool line in my
> testcase) on machines where I could reproduce the bug.
>
I observed the same.
> Perhaps the code runs too slowly on the virtual machine and under
> valgrind.
>
> BTW, valgrind signals a read error:
>
> ==4060== Invalid read of size 1
> ==4060== at 0x114836: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x115110: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x10B304: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x10B945: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x109FAE: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x506FB44: (below main) (libc-start.c:287)
> ==4060== Address 0x7f59f1c is 0 bytes after a block of size 60 alloc'd
> ==4060== at 0x4C28C20: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:296)
> ==4060== by 0x1196B6: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x1197E0: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x1135BB: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x113734: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x113DB9: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x10BEBB: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x109DE4: ??? (in /usr/bin/bibtool)
> ==4060== by 0x506FB44: (below main) (libc-start.c:287)
>
Ok. I will resubmit the bug to the upstream maintainer.
The last time I submitted it, I could not reproduce the issue.
And on my side, I could hardly trace it.
Thanks,
Jerome
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