bin/123977: Segmentation fault in dialog with ghostscript-gpl-nox11 port

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR bin/123977; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: Jille <jille at quis.cx>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, Ed <ed at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: bin/123977: Segmentation fault in dialog with ghostscript-gpl-nox11
 port
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 14:02:58 +0200

 Jille wrote:
 
 >> Environment:
 > System: FreeBSD bob.omicidio.nl 6.2-RELEASE-p9 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p9 #0: Sun Jan 13 12:50:30 CET 2008 quis at bob.omicidio.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BOB i386
 > 
 >         libdialog.so.5 => /usr/lib/libdialog.so.5 (0x2807b000)
 >         libncurses.so.6 => /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x28094000)
 >         libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x280d3000)
 >> Description:
 > 	When trying make config in /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gpl-nox11,
 > 	I get a normal dialog (with a lot of options, might be a/the problem ?)
 > 	When I hit OK, Dialog crashes with SIGSEGV (when hitting Cancel it doesn't crash)
 > 	Output:
 > 	Segmentation fault (core dumped)
 > 	===> Options unchanged
 > 
 > 	# portsnap fetch extract
 > 	didn't solve the problem
 >> How-To-Repeat:
 > 	cd /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gpl-nox11
 > 	make config
 > 	tab, enter (OK)
 >> Fix:
 > 	Unfortunately I couldn't get a backtrace.
 > 	(Recompiled dialog and libndialog with -g)
 > 	I can give the memory adresses in the backtrace, but they seem quite useless.
 > 	I'm willing to provide help of course, so tell me what to do :)
 > 
 > 	Note: the recompiled dialog and libndialog where the 6.3-sources! (I had 6.3 checked out, and compiled, to be able to upgrade with a few commands)
 > 	However the crash also occurred with the original 6.2-source.
 
 In order to proceed with this we need either a reliable way to reproduce 
 this, or a backtrace.
 
 Kris