Bug#799766: man-db: man segfault upon stat error (EPROTO) while scanning /usr

2015-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 05:37:16PM +0200, Yvan Coene wrote: > 2015-09-22 15:16 GMT+02:00 Colin Watson : > > Are you in a position to build the latest git tree from source and test > > it? http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git shows git

Bug#799766: man-db: man segfault upon stat error (EPROTO) while scanning /usr

2015-09-22 Thread Yvan Coene
Package: man-db Version: 2.7.0.2-5 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, A stale NFS file handle on a VirtualBox host shared with a Debian guest under /usr/global results in `man` segfaulting at startup on the guest: ycoene@debian:~$ strace man man [...] lstat64("/usr",

Bug#799766: man-db: man segfault upon stat error (EPROTO) while scanning /usr

2015-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:32:51AM +0200, Yvan Coene wrote: > A stale NFS file handle on a VirtualBox host shared with a Debian guest > under /usr/global results in `man` segfaulting at startup on the guest: > > ycoene@debian:~$ strace man man > > [...] > > lstat64("/usr",

Bug#799766: man-db: man segfault upon stat error (EPROTO) while scanning /usr

2015-09-22 Thread Yvan Coene
2015-09-22 13:18 GMT+02:00 Colin Watson : > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:32:51AM +0200, Yvan Coene wrote: > > A stale NFS file handle on a VirtualBox host shared with a Debian guest > > under /usr/global results in `man` segfaulting at startup on the guest: > > > >

Bug#799766: man-db: man segfault upon stat error (EPROTO) while scanning /usr

2015-09-22 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 02:13:59PM +0200, Yvan Coene wrote: > 2015-09-22 13:18 GMT+02:00 Colin Watson : > > This is difficult for me to reproduce locally. Could you please run > > "strace -o man.trace -s 1024 man -d man" and attach the resulting > > man.trace file to this

Bug#799766: man-db: man segfault upon stat error (EPROTO) while scanning /usr

2015-09-22 Thread Yvan Coene
2015-09-22 15:16 GMT+02:00 Colin Watson : > Are you in a position to build the latest git tree from source and test > it? http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/man-db.git shows git clone URLs. I couldn't reproduce the bug on 2.7.4, built from source: $ ./configure; make