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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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>, 30785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30785: Man pages truncated, repeated
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 17:10:23 +0100

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

>> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Forks.html
>> 
>> this might help here.
>
> Thanks Gábor.
> So I tried the following in gdb:
>
>> set follow-for-mode child
>> set detach-on-fork off
>> run emacs
> [inferior 2 completes]
>> inferior 1
> [inferior 3 completes]
>> inferior 1
> [inferior 4 completes]
>> inferior 1
> [inferior 5 hangs]
>
> GDB seems to be stuck on the 5th inferior.  Maybe this is not so reliable.

Maybe it’s just that the inferior is still running, no?

>> Can we trigger the segfault without libpipeline?
>
> "preconv" by itself seems to work perfectly.  It even works in man if it's in
> the PATH.  It only breaks from libpipeline.

What about reproducing the segfault and getting a core dump?  Roughly
you can do:

  ulimit -c unlimited
  man whatever that causes the crash
  gdb /path/to/preconv core

HTH!

Ludo’.
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