Package: mc Version: 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
When running mc inside a screen session via SSH mc crashes as soon as you resize the window in which mc is displayed. When this error occures mc freezes and allocates memory in an endless loop in the background. Once system resources have been reached the entire system freezes. Sometimes (tested with a system with a Xen 3.2-1 hypervisor) this even might kernel-panic the hypervisor. Steps to verify (the ones that worked for me): - Fire up a DomU with Xen (3.2-1) - Connect to that DomU by SSH - apt-get install screen mc - Fire up new screen session or take over an existing with screen -d -RR - In that screen session start mc - Resize the Window of the screen session - MC freezes (now wait a few seconds for MC to fill up the memory) --> The system completely hangs, probably with Kernel Panic On the step where mc starts to hang have a view on top or htop regarding mc's memory usage which suddently increases rapidly. If you kill mc fast enough (before it reaches the maximum RAM available) no crash of the VM happens. Regards, Benny. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mc depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.1 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libslang2 2.1.3-3 The S-Lang programming library - r mc recommends no packages. Versions of packages mc suggests: pn arj <none> (no description available) ii bzip2 1.0.5-1 high-quality block-sorting file co pn dbview <none> (no description available) ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii lynx 2.8.7dev9-2.1 Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap pn odt2txt <none> (no description available) ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii unzip 5.52-12 De-archiver for .zip files ii w3m 0.5.2-2+b1 WWW browsable pager with excellent pn xpdf <none> (no description available) pn zip <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org