On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 09:25:05PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 10:03 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > They aren't useful, but I'm not sure why that means I should close > > the bug. > > It is a standard line to get grumpy people who don't like people who > report crashes to ignore them instead of getting grumpy.
Fair enough. > > Could you please run: > > > > PIPELINE_DEBUG=1 strace -f -o man.trace -s 1024 man man | head -n1 > > > > ... and attach both the full output on stderr and the resulting > > man.trace file? > > Ran this and attached the results files, xz compressed: > > $ PIPELINE_DEBUG=1 strace -f -o man.trace -s 1024 man man 2> stderr | head > -n1 > MAN(1) > Manual pager utils > MAN(1) Hmm, this doesn't seem to show a SIGSYS, and man exited 0. Can you find some way to get an strace that doesn't make the problem go away? (It may be worth checking whether there are any set-id programs involved, as that's sometimes a problem with strace. Or there may be something else weird going on.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
