> The patch works! Thanks for testing. The patch will go into SVN soon, it will be in 2.4.3. But this newer version will not make it into Wily, so some Ubuntu maintainer will have to apply the attached patch to 2.4.2 and release an updated ubuntu version of nano-2.4.2.
-- 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