On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Mikulas,
>
> Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > > Aptitude crashes on arm64. If I ress 'q' and quit aptitude, I get a
> > > > crash.
> > > > If I press 'g' to let aptitude do some work, I get a crash.
> > >
> > > Hmmm, I assume this is reproducible on your machine?
> >
> > Yes - it is 100% reproducible.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > I've found out that the crash only happens with the kernel 5.8-rc.
> > Aptitude works on 5.7.
>
> Okay… O.o
>
> Wonder if this should be reassigned to the kernel then. Any chance
> that you find evidence in this by other similar (maybe other curses or
> slang?) applications crashing, too.
The crash happens in the libcwidget library - and aptitude is the only
package that uses it.
> > So, it may be bug in the kernel and not aptitude. I
> > bisected it, and it is caused by the kernel commit
> > d27865279f12035c730818aa1a0280fada866a37.
>
> This seems to be an arm64-only commit, so I assume this is really
> arm64-specific.
Yes.
Mikulas
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