The patch works! Got a little confused by caching of the paths, which was returning /usr/local/bin/nano, but without the qualified path, it was using /bin/nano. Easily fixed
What happens next? I noticed your thread over at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2015-11/msg00000.html - I guess a patch to their svn, and then something related in debian/ubuntu repo? Then poking someone to get a new package built and distributed? Thanks! -- 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
