Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
#893 closed defect (fixed)
GNU Info reader segmentation fault
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Book | Version: | TESTING |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
I get a reproducible segmentation fault using the GNU info reader. One way to reproduce it is doing 'info info', select 'Expert Info', and go backwards a page with DEL. You could also hold SPC a little, then hitting DEL a few times usually causes a segfault. The message is "Moving to `Prev's last menu item.Segmentation fault".
I followed the book, v. 5.1.1 to the letter (completed it twice, same info problem), with no optimization flags, and no odd test failures in any packages. The texinfo 'make check' completes, no errors.
I tried installing texinfo 4.6. This solves the problem -- no segfault.
My machine is a Compaq Presario 705 EA, 1 GHz Athlon-4. Host distro is Debian.
Someone else with the same problem: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-texinfo/2004-06/msg00019.html
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 20 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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comment:2 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
Verfied by 3 others also. Patch submitted to patches project. Updated unstable with patch. Recommend updating testing for patch also.
Assigning bug to Gerard for update in testing
comment:3 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | fixed |
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| Status: | closed → reopened |
comment:4 by , 20 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | reopened → new |
| Version: | 5.1.1 → TESTING |
comment:5 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
The patch for this is now in 6.0-testing as well. This one is resolved.
Verified, will take a look at the issue and report back