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Running detex --help crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()

Bug #438955 reported by Muelli on 2009-09-29

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This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	texlive-bin (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

Just run detex --help and see it segfault

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/detex
Package: texlive-extra-utils 2007.dfsg.2-4ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: detex --help
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: texlive-bin
StacktraceTop:
strlen () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? ()
?? ()
__libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
?? ()
Title: detex crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse kvm libvirtd lpadmin netdev plugdev powerdev scanner tty vboxusers video

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Muelli (ubuntu-bugs-auftrags-killer) wrote on 2009-09-29:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (768 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (333 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (1.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (803 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (969 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (410 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (436 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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private → public

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-10-01: Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

#2

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (335 bytes, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:48
SetEnvIgnore (sbEnvList=0x0) at xxx.l:428
main (cArgs=2, rgsbArgs=0x7fffd42d53b8) at xxx.l:350

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2009-10-01: ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)

#3

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (361 bytes, text/plain)

Changed in texlive-bin (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-amd64-retrace

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George (gnwiii) wrote on 2010-05-12:

#4

detex does not support "--help", but has '-e <environment-list>' so the problem is failure to handle a missing '<environment-list>' argument.

The same bug is present in upstream TeX Live 2009.

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dino99 (9d9) wrote on 2016-01-25:

#5

This version is outdated and no more supported

Changed in texlive-bin (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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