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).





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