Bash crashes when completing ~ (home dir)

[Nicolás Lichtmaier]

Binary package hint: libnss-ldap

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04, with libnss-ldap version 258-1ubuntu3.

Stack trace:

#0 0x00007f3e8d1b5095 in *__GI_raise (sig=<value optimized out>)
    at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
#1 0x00007f3e8d1b6af0 in *__GI_abort () at abort.c:88
#2 0x0000000000435624 in programming_error ()
#3 0x000000000048f9f5 in ?? ()
#4 0x00007f3e8cd5ee45 in _nss_ldap_ent_context_release (ctx=0x8b8608)
    at ldap-nss.c:2057
#5 0x00007f3e8cd5f795 in _nss_ldap_endpwent () at ldap-pwd.c:260
#6 0x00007f3e8d26c04d in __nss_endent (func_name=0x7f3e8d2a874e "endpwent",
    lookup_fct=0x7f3e8d26cfd0 <*__GI___nss_passwd_lookup>, nip=0x7f3e8d4e18e0,
    startp=0x7f3e8d4e18f0, last_nip=0x7f3e8d4e18e8, res=<value optimized out>)
    at getnssent_r.c:117
#7 0x00007f3e8d21f79a in endpwent () at ../nss/getXXent_r.c:144
#8 0x0000000000478321 in rl_username_completion_function ()
#9 0x000000000047838a in rl_completion_matches ()
#10 0x0000000000454013 in bash_default_completion ()

more info:

(gdb) fr 4
#4 0x00007f3e8cd5ee45 in _nss_ldap_ent_context_release (ctx=0x8b8608)
    at ldap-nss.c:2057
2057 ber_bvfree (ctx->ec_cookie);
(gdb) p *ctx
$3 = {ec_state = {ls_type = 1, ls_retry = 0, ls_info = {
      ls_key = 0xdfdfdfdfffffffff <Address 0xdfdfdfdfffffffff out of bounds>,
      ls_index = -1}}, ec_msgid = -1, ec_res = 0x0, ec_sd = 0x0,
  ec_cookie = 0x8bbde8}

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report I have reported it upstream at:

http://bugzilla.padl.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406

Regards
chuck