Yup, 15.10 seems to. I have never edited the /etc/nanorc file, so I guess it was just updated to the default package maintainers version as per the usual. So the grep gives the obvious output:
reedy@ko-kra:~$ grep locking /etc/nanorc set locking reedy@ko-kra:~$ Yeah, I ended up applying the patch by hand. I guess debugging tired (on unfamiliar source code). I should have really noticed what the issue was! Will try the patch again on the source from the 15.10 apt repo Will post the ./configure stuff to nano-devel; that's fine by me. Certainly no config on my part, rather than just installing the necessary packages (libncurses dev packages, dh-autoconf etc) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to nano in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1509081 Title: nano segfaults as root after upgrade to 15.10 Status in nano package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 15.10 Release: 15.10 nano: Installed: 2.4.2-1 Candidate: 2.4.2-1 Version table: *** 2.4.2-1 0 500 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status After upgrading Ubuntu 15.04 to 15.10, when I run nano as root on a file it just segfaults. I'm not having this problem on other 15.04->15.10 upgrades strace is https://p.defau.lt/?q7xGwt3HoqB74xTawUUHDA catchsegv is https://p.defau.lt/?0SPQY_bDj6F6j1ZKeToQoA Under gdb with nano-dbgsym installed, it gives #0 main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe688) at ../../src/nano.c:2768 If I run it as sudo nano filename.txt, it gives an error as below rather than segfaulting [ Couldn't determine hostname for lock file: File name too long ] Both my user and root have the same locale settings. I've tried regenerating the locales To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano/+bug/1509081/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp