GNU bug report logs - #30785
Man pages truncated, repeated

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:26:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #74 received at 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:59:48 +0100

Hello Pierre,

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan.
14., H, 11:42):
>
> Hmmm... Not sure how to trace that with GDB.
> I'm not sure how to handle child processes.
>

https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Forks.html

this might help here.

> The offending libpipeline call is "pipeline_pump" in src/man.c:2329 in the
> "display" function.
>
> I'd need more time to investigate this, time which I don't have at the moment,
> sorry :(
>
> --
> Pierre Neidhardt
> https://ambrevar.xyz/

Can we trigger the segfault without libpipeline?

If it is so, then IMO preconv is at fault...

Best regards,
g_bor
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