Bug#549312: aptitude: cdrom segfaults on several machines and architectures when reading DVDs

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 12:36:37PM +0100, ael law_ence@ntlworld.com was heard to say: 1) An entry in /var/log/messages: Oct 2 10:48:44 conquest3 kernel: cdrom[4987]: segfault at 200 ip b807b71d sp bf a34890 error 4 in ld-2.9.so[b8068000+1c000] Oct 2 10:48:56 conquest3 kernel:

Bug#549312: aptitude: cdrom segfaults on several machines and architectures when reading DVDs

2009-10-05 Thread ael
Daniel Burrows wrote: # ps -C cdrom PID TTY TIME CMD 5845 pts/000:00:00 cdrom conquest3:~# gdb aptitude 5845 You'll probably have better luck if you debug /usr/lib/cdrom instead of aptitude. :) I don't know if that'll help much, though; it doesn't have debugging symbols

Bug#549312: aptitude: cdrom segfaults on several machines and architectures when reading DVDs

2009-10-02 Thread ael
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable For over a month now (presumably since the last aptitude upgrade on testing) I have been seeing segfaults recorded in /var/log/messages on two i386 boxes and on an amd64, all running testing. I