Package: whiptail
Version: 0.52.21-3
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
After doing a system update in my Sid box today, the whiptail
fails to run with output: "free(): invalid pointer"
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Run the following in the command line as a normal user:
whiptail --backtitle 'backtitle' --title 'testing' --menu
'Choose:' 0 0 0 A 'A' B 'B' C 'C'
Choose either A, B, or C then press Enter.
* What was the outcome of this action?
free(): invalid pointer
Aborted
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Either A, B, or C is shown in the command line.
I believe this is due to some changes in the libs or utilities, not the
problem of whiptail since it is not updated recently. I just do not find
which lib or utility is the culprit.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages whiptail depends on:
ii libc6 2.29-2
ii libnewt0.52 0.52.21-3
ii libpopt0 1.16-13
ii libslang2 2.3.2-4
whiptail recommends no packages.
whiptail suggests no packages.
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Steven Shiau <steven _at_ stevenshiau org>
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