On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 11:01:46AM +0200, Preuße, Hilmar wrote: > Hello, > > seems to be a rather long standing issue, but minor. The info viewer "info" > opens the file /usr/share/info/dir, which seem to contains some kind of > index. In case the file is not readable (e.g. due to broken permissions) the > "info" simply crashes with an segmentation fault. > > This should be avoided somehow, a decent error message would be nice. > > Many thanks, > Hilmar > -- > #206401 http://counter.li.org >
Thanks for the report. I replicated this on the master branch with: touch dir INFOPATH=. ./ginfo -v infopath-no-defaults=On I've attempted a fix in commit 5490efb8a73 (today).
