tcsh coredumps all the time on tab

Bug #1624415 reported by Jens Elkner
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apport (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

When a users having tcsh as its [login] shell presses tab key (autocompletion), tcsh coredumps immediately, always:

admin.python ~ > gdb tcsh
GNU gdb (Ubuntu 7.11.90.20160906-0ubuntu1) 7.11.90.20160906-git
...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /local/home/admin/tcsh
admin.python ~ > ls .<tab>
Suspended (tty output)
admin.python ~ > fg
gdb tcsh

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
__GI___rewinddir (dirp=0x771808) at ../sysdeps/posix/rewinddir.c:34
34 ../sysdeps/posix/rewinddir.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) quit
A debugging session is active.

 Inferior 1 [process 25990] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n) y
admin.python ~ > lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Yakkety Yak (development branch)
Release: 16.10
Codename: yakkety

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1618803, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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