Perfect, thanks. I will take a look and see what I can do. I will warn you that the original developer of checkinstall doesn't seem interested in the project anymore so any fix will be limited to anything I or any other Debian contributor can figure out so no promises that this will be able to be fixed promptly.
Stephen On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 7:30 PM Jiri Palecek <jpale...@web.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > On 07. 07. 20 17:11, Stephen Gelman wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2020, at 9:42 AM, Jiri Palecek <jpale...@web.de> wrote: > >> Package: checkinstall > >> Version: 1.6.2+git20170426.d24a630-2 > >> Severity: important > >> File: /usr/bin/installwatch > >> > >> Dear Maintainer, > >> > >> while trying to use checkinstall to create a debianized package from a > >> cmake based source, the build failed with a segfault. These are linked > >> to installwatch and don't happen without it: > >> > >> $ installwatch make cmake_check_build_system > >> > >> INFO : Using a default root directory : /tmp/tmp.JBpq66zd4H > >> > >> make: *** [Makefile:10806: cmake_check_build_system] Neoprávněný přístup > >> do paměti (SIGSEGV) (obraz paměti uložen) > >> > >> There is a backtrace of the crash, which indicates it happens early in > >> the initialization of cmake around a stat call: > >> > >> (gdb) bt > >> #0 0x00000000 in ?? () > >> #1 0xb6a3fbd3 in stat64 (__statbuf=<optimized out>, __path=0xb6b472bb > >> "/etc/gnutls/config") at /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/sys/stat.h:455 > >> #2 _gnutls_update_system_priorities () at ../../lib/priority.c:1309 > >> #3 0xb6a534f5 in _gnutls_global_init (constructor=constructor@entry=1) at > >> ../../lib/global.c:387 > >> #4 0xb6a25950 in lib_init () at ../../lib/global.c:511 > >> #5 0xb7f35f5c in call_init (l=<optimized out>, argc=argc@entry=6, > >> argv=argv@entry=0xbfe33e64, env=0xbfe33e80) at dl-init.c:72 > >> #6 0xb7f36062 in call_init (env=0xbfe33e80, argv=0xbfe33e64, argc=6, > >> l=<optimized out>) at dl-init.c:30 > >> #7 _dl_init (main_map=<optimized out>, argc=6, argv=0xbfe33e64, > >> env=0xbfe33e80) at dl-init.c:119 > >> #8 0xb7f270fa in _dl_start_user () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 > >> (gdb) frame 1 > >> #1 0xb6a3fbd3 in stat64 (__statbuf=<optimized out>, __path=0xb6b472bb > >> "/etc/gnutls/config") at /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/sys/stat.h:455 > >> 455 return __xstat (_STAT_VER, __path, __statbuf); > >> > >> Why did it end up with EIP=0 I don't know. > >> > >> It seems there's some incompatibility between installwatch's LD_PRELOAD > >> and glibc. > >> > >> Could you have a look at it? > >> > >> Regards > >> Jiri Palecek > > Jiri, > > > > Thanks for the report. In order to help me narrow this down are you able to > > provide a simple test case to reproduce the problem? > > I don't know if it's simple, but here goes. In an empty directory: > > $ touch CMakeLists.txt > > $ cmake . > > $ installwatch cmake . > > > The last line crashes on my system. > > Regards > > Jiri Palecek
