Hi, I have just determined the cause of the Nano startup problem. On my regular desktop system where Nano works perfectly, I upgraded the relevant packages from Jessie to testing. Nano still worked fine, so it is obviously not a library issue. On my other system also running testing which is exhibiting the segfault, the library versions are the same. By accident, I have now solved the problem, at least locally and have determined what's wrong.
On my desktop system, my locale is set to C. In other words, I am not using UTF-8 on that system. On the failing system, it is set to en-GB.UTF8. When I do the following, Nano 2.4.1 starts normally: LC_ALL=C nano test Otherwise, "nano test" by itself fails with the previously mentioned segfault. Therefore, it's somehow related to either wide character suport or some other locale issue having to do with UTF-8. I am not a developer, so I don't know how to actually work around the bug, but hopefully this helps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
