hello,
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > klibc cpio segfaults extracting various cpio files. It seems to work for > small files, but fail for larger ones, including the d-i root floppy > image. > > For example: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/empty>wget > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/20080401-09:01/floppy/root.img > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/empty>zcat root.img | sudo /usr/lib/klibc/bin/cpio -i > zsh: broken pipe zcat root.img | > zsh: segmentation fault sudo /usr/lib/klibc/bin/cpio -i right easy testcase. > Or: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin>find . | cpio --quiet -o -H newc >|~/bin.cpio > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin>cd /tmp/empty > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/empty>sudo /usr/lib/klibc/bin/cpio -i < ~/bin.cpio > zsh: segmentation fault sudo /usr/lib/klibc/bin/cpio -i < ~/bin.cpio > > Version 1.5.9-2 does not have this problem. it has just verified, recompiled it and it has the same problem. recompiled 1.5.9 and HEAD with gcc-4.2 and problem was gone. didn't see an obvious gcc-4.3 warning while compiling cpio. > I am not familiar with klibc enough to get a backtrace, but I hope this > can easily be reproduced so you can.. will look into it later today after france italy match. > Since this breaks d-i boot floppies, I've marked this RC, to avoid the > broken one getting into testing. (However, d-i builds images using the > version in unstable, so blocking it won't help entirely.) hmm it migrated already afais, as soon as a fix is known i'll upload it together with 1.5.11 -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
