autopkgtest fails with version 1.0.1-17ubuntu1

[Pushkar Kulkarni]

I can reproduce this "peculiar" failure with 100% consistency, but ONLY using the current (as of Apr 21) binaries in the proposed pocket. I rebuilt tcpxtract 1.0.1-17ubuntu1 locally and also in a PPA [1], but the test did not fail. Also, this failure is arm64-only.

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$ sudo autopkgtest --apt-upgrade --apt-pocket=proposed=src:tcpxtract tcpxtract -- lxd autopkgtest/ubuntu/noble/arm64

...
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autopkgtest [10:57:34]: test command1: tcpxtract -f debian/tests/test.pcap
autopkgtest [10:57:34]: test command1: [-----------------------
tcpxtract: search.c:181: search: Assertion `tree != NULL' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
...

command1 FAIL non-zero exit status 134

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[1] https://launchpad.net/~pushkarnk/+archive/ubuntu/test-builds

[Pushkar Kulkarni (pushkarnk)]

The test has a straightforward command: tcpxtract -f debian/tests/test.pcap

Interestingly, even if I build the relevant version locally (on a Pi5) and run this command, I cannot repro the assertion failure.

[Pushkar Kulkarni (pushkarnk)]

Steps to reproduce (as of today):

1. git clone https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tcpxtract
2. Add noble-proposed to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources
3. sudo apt update && sudo apt install tcpxtract
4. tcpxtract -f tcpxtract/debian/test/test.pcap

[Vladimir Petko (vpa1977)]

in ubuntu2 it is failing on armhf because yacc generated parser never hits call to 'config_type()' and does not initialise srch_machine at all:
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/usr/bin/tcpxtract -f debian/tests/test.pcap
syntax error
tcpxtract: search.c:181: search: Assertion `tree != NULL' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tcpxtract - 1.0.1-17ubuntu3

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tcpxtract (1.0.1-17ubuntu3) noble; urgency=medium

  * Update configuration parser to resolve autopkgtest crash (LP: #2063015):
    - d/p/90_terminate_lexem.patch: enable verbose parser errors,
      terminate comment line lexem, match '(' ' ',' and ')' explicitly.
  * d/rules: run smoke test at the build time.

 -- Vladimir Petko <email address hidden> Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:14:54 +1200