Package: axel Version: 2.4-1 Severity: normal Tags: squeeze
-- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.7 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES.utf8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages axel depends on: ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib axel recommends no packages. axel suggests no packages. -- no debconf information I found a bug with axel 2.4 (on Debian 6 stable), it throws an Segmentation Fault when we execute it with a connection negative values. If we debug the application with an incorrect launch value, we'll see: --- GNU gdb (GDB) 7.0.1-debian Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux-gnu". For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... Reading symbols from /usr/bin/axel...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) run -n -1 google.es Starting program: /usr/bin/axel -n -1 google.es [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Initializing download: google.es Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007ffff78df7df in memset () from /lib/libc.so.6 ------- If we see the backtrace: --- (gdb) backtrace #0 0x00007ffff78df7df in memset () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000000000402c9a in ?? () #2 0x00000000004076fa in ?? () #3 0x00007ffff787fc8d in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x0000000000401a09 in ?? () #5 0x00007fffffffe3e8 in ?? () #6 0x000000000000001c in ?? () #7 0x0000000000000004 in ?? () #8 0x00007fffffffe697 in ?? () #9 0x00007fffffffe6a5 in ?? () #10 0x00007fffffffe6a8 in ?? () #11 0x00007fffffffe6ab in ?? () #12 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () --- I suspect, it maybe the following line: memset( axel->conn, 0, sizeof( conn_t ) * axel->conf->num_connections ); Only maybe! Thanks. ----- Àngel Ollé Blázquez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org