On Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:40:25 +0000 Juerg Haefliger <[email protected]> wrote:
> > why I didn't receive your message. Sorry for the delay. Where do I see
> > the auto-removal? Was it something that I did when I reported the bug?
>
> No, you didn't do anything wrong. I'm also new to this and still try to
> figure out BTS :-) I fiddled with it and the autoremoval is gone now.
>
> FTR, it showed up here (in the action needed list):
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/crash
>
> FYI, I've uploaded a candidate to [1] and [2]. Can you grab the
binary deb
> from [2] and give it a whirl?
>
> Thanks
> ...Juerg
>
> [1] https://mentors.debian.net/
> [2] https://people.canonical.com/~juergh/bug1141862/
Hello Juerg,
First, my apologies for the delay. I haven't checked if you pushed it to
the official repository yet, but I tested the .deb package you provided
and it fixes the issue. Thank you!
Before
$ uname -a
Linux debian 6.1.0-52-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.180-1
(2026-08-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ apt-cache show crash
Package: crash
Version: 8.0.2-1
...
$ sudo crash vmlinux-6.1.0-52-amd64
[sudo] password for user:
crash 8.0.2
...
crash: cannot set context for pid: 3754
Segmentation fault
$
After
$ sudo dpkg -i crash_8.0.2-1.1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 80437 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack crash_8.0.2-1.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking crash (8.0.2-1.1) over (8.0.2-1) ...
Setting up crash (8.0.2-1.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.11.2-2) ...
$ apt-cache show crash
Package: crash
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 11942
Maintainer: Troy Heber <[email protected]>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 8.0.2-1.1
...
$ sudo crash vmlinux-6.1.0-52-amd64
crash 8.0.2
Copyright (C) 2002-2022 Red Hat, Inc.
...
KERNEL: vmlinux-6.1.0-52-amd64 [TAINTED]
DUMPFILE: /proc/kcore
CPUS: 4
DATE: Sat Sep 5 14:58:54 -03 2026
UPTIME: 00:22:46
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.12, 0.24, 0.13
TASKS: 213
NODENAME: debian
RELEASE: 6.1.0-52-amd64
VERSION: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.180-1 (2026-08-03)
MACHINE: x86_64 (2712 Mhz)
MEMORY: 2 GB
PID: 3811
COMMAND: "crash"
TASK: ffff888020343380 [THREAD_INFO: ffff888020343380]
CPU: 0
STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE)
crash> ps
PID PPID CPU TASK ST %MEM VSZ RSS COMM
0 0 0 ffffffff82a1aa40 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper/0]
> 0 0 1 ffff888004ab99c0 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper/1]
> 0 0 2 ffff888004abb380 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper/2]
0 0 3 ffff888004abcd40 RU 0.0 0 0 [swapper/3]
1 0 0 ffff888004a33380 IN 0.6 167776 12104 systemd
...
crash> files
PID: 3811 TASK: ffff888020343380 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "crash"
ROOT: / CWD: /home/user
FD FILE DENTRY INODE TYPE PATH
0 ffff888009ef5800 ffff888016df7e40 ffff88800ac5a300 CHR /dev/pts/1
1 ffff888009ef5800 ffff888016df7e40 ffff88800ac5a300 CHR /dev/pts/1
2 ffff888009ef5800 ffff888016df7e40 ffff88800ac5a300 CHR /dev/pts/1
...
17 ffff888010c90a00 ffff88804a518cc0 ffff88801894a080 FIFO
crash>
