msgmerge crash while merging translations

[Luca Lorenzetto]

Binary package hint: gettext

While trying to merge translations to a pot file from a correct po file of the horde framework i get a segfault when calling msgmerge.

With another machine with an older version of gettext msgmerge works correctly .

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root@assistenza:/var/www/horde/po# php translation.php merge -m whups -l it_IT
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Horde translation generator
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Loading libraries...
Console_Getopt... OK
Console_Table... OK
File_Find... OK

Searching gettext binaries...
gettext... found: /usr/bin/gettext
msgattrib... found: /usr/bin/msgattrib
msgcat... found: /usr/bin/msgcat
msgcomm... found: /usr/bin/msgcomm
msgfmt... found: /usr/bin/msgfmt
msginit... found: /usr/bin/msginit
msgmerge... found: /usr/bin/msgmerge
xgettext... found: /usr/bin/xgettext

gettext version: 0.17 OK

Searching Horde applications in /var/www/horde/po/..
Found applications: horde, whups.bak, whups.corr, whups

Cleaning up PO files for module whups...
Cleaning up locale it_IT...
done

Merging translation for module whups...
Merging locale it_IT...
/usr/bin/msgmerge --update -v --compendium="/var/www/horde/po/../po/compendium.po" "/var/www/horde/po/../whups/po/it_IT.po" "/var/www/horde/po/../whups/po/whups.pot"Segmentation fault
done

Please report any bugs to <email address hidden>.
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Nov 20 19:58:14 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: gettext 0.17-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gettext
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-25-virtual i686

[Luca Lorenzetto (lorenzetto-luca)]

here the three files that makes msgmerge segfaulting

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Here too, I can't produce a more accurate backtrace due to missing dbgsym package:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb7be48b3 in strlen () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb7be48b3 in strlen () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#1 0xb7fac1d6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgettextsrc-0.17.so
#2 0xb7fac4f6 in is_message_list_iconvable () from /usr/lib/libgettextsrc-0.17.so
#3 0x0804c901 in ?? ()
#4 0x0804cf98 in ?? ()
#5 0xb7b87b35 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#6 0x0804a491 in ?? ()

[Luca Lorenzetto (lorenzetto-luca)]

The issue affects also lucid, same problem on my server while trying to merge translations

[Jan Schneider (yunosh)]

I see this in Lucid too, but it seems to be fixed in Maverick, which has gettext 0.18.