Subject: Re: bug#53296: Intermittent segfaults when parsing (?) custom package from repo.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 12:28:57 +0100

Hi,

[email-masked] skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Here’s how I tried (and failed) to reproduce the segfault:
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> $ find /tmp/test
>> /tmp/test
>> /tmp/test/gnu
>> /tmp/test/gnu/packages
>> /tmp/test/gnu/packages/jsoftware.scm
>> 
>> $ guix build -L /tmp/test jsoftware
>> /tmp/test/gnu/packages/jsoftware.scm:76:0: warning: source expression failed to match any pattern
>> guix build: error: jsoftware: nekonata pako
>
> Is that an Esperanto locale?!

Jes!

> The segfault is pretty inconsistent on my end. Unfortunately, the only
> "reliable" way to produce I know at the moment is to badger the build command
> repeatedly and get (un)lucky.

OK, please let us know when you have a reliable reproducer, or GDB
backtraces, things like that.

Thanks,
Ludo’.