[regression] segfault on raring

[Kees Cook]

It seems that faketime has stopped working under raring due to some bad interaction with glibc 2.17.

Impact: Anything using faketime will totally fail (no execution happens).
Test Case: "faketime "+1 month" /bin/date" segfaults instead of running.
Regression Potential: zero. anything is better than a total failure.

Since this is a little-changed package, and it's the same version between raring and saucy, it seems like it would make sense to sync to saucy from raring-proposed once it's in.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Test case:

faketime "+1 month" /bin/date

Doesn't work on raring, worked fine before.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Kees, or anyone else affected,

Accepted faketime into raring-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/faketime/0.8-1ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Robert Hooker (sarvatt)]

ii faketime 0.8-1 amd64 report faked system time to programs

sarvatt@sarvatt-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon{~/source/bzr/laika}:faketime "+1 month" /bin/date
Segmentation fault
Error: Timestamp to fake not recognized, please re-try with a different timestamp.

ii faketime 0.8-1ubuntu1 amd64 report faked system time to programs
sarvatt@sarvatt-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon{~/source/bzr/laika}:faketime "+1 month" /bin/date
Wed Jul 10 16:18:30 EDT 2013

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package faketime - 0.8-1ubuntu1

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faketime (0.8-1ubuntu1) raring-proposed; urgency=low

  * Avoid loop under glibc 2.7 (LP: #1177218, Closes: 699559).
 -- Kees Cook <email address hidden> Mon, 06 May 2013 22:56:39 -0700

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Fixed in saucy in 0.9.1-1ubuntu1