This was happening to me also. I was running pxz from within a Makefile. The same command would work fine if I typed it on a BASH command line.
On a whim I compared the output of "ulimit -a" for the two cases. The only difference was in the Makefile context the stack size was "unlimited", whereas from BASH my stack size was 8192. The problem went away for me when I ran "ulimit -s 8192" before running pxz in the Makefile context. See the attached strace output from the failing case which gave me some clues about the stack size. ** Attachment added: "pxz strace dump" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pxz/+bug/1199895/+attachment/4112693/+files/pxz-strace.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199895 Title: pxz crashed with SIGSEGV in _IO_vsnprintf() To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pxz/+bug/1199895/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
