Package: gnubiff
Version: 2.2.15-4
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

With 2.2.16-1, gnubiff fails to load the config at startup, with the error:
** (gnubiff:5100): WARNING **: Configuration file () not found!
Settings are then all default.

With 2.2.15-4, all is fine.

Giving the path to the file "gnubiff -c /home/user1/.gnubiffrc" does not help.

With strace, I see (no option given):
- 1st try: open("\270\10[\te/user1/.gnubiffrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
- 2nd try: open("\20\210\301\te/user1/.gnubiffrc",
O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
- 3rd try: open("08h\te/user1/.gnubiffrc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
which looks like a string buffer being overwritten.

Looking at the code, I followed to Options::value_string in
options.cc, but the code hasn't changed between 2.2.15-4 and 2.2.16-1
(no code has changed, actually)
I couldn't locate the dbg package to dig deeper with gdb.

Thanks!
Omen


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers oldoldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.51-xps (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnubiff depends on:
ii  dpkg                 1.18.4
ii  gconf-service        3.2.6-3
ii  install-info         6.1.0.dfsg.1-2
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.16.0-2
ii  libc6                2.21-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2    1.14.2-2
ii  libcairo2            1.14.2-2
ii  libfam0              2.7.0-17.1+b1
ii  libgcc1              1:5.3.1-9
ii  libgconf-2-4         3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.5-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.46.2-3
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.16.6-1
pn  libpanel-applet-4-0  <none>
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.38.1-1
ii  libpopt0             1.16-10
ii  libssl1.0.0          1.0.2d-1
ii  libstdc++6           5.3.1-9
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.3-1
ii  sox                  14.4.1-5

Versions of packages gnubiff recommends:
pn  fam  <none>

gnubiff suggests no packages.

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