On Sat, 27 Jun 2020, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi Mikulas, > > Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > Aptitude crashes on arm64. If I ress 'q' and quit aptitude, I get a > > > > crash. > > > > If I press 'g' to let aptitude do some work, I get a crash. > > > > > > Hmmm, I assume this is reproducible on your machine? > > > > Yes - it is 100% reproducible. > > Thanks! > > > I've found out that the crash only happens with the kernel 5.8-rc. > > Aptitude works on 5.7. > > Okay… O.o > > Wonder if this should be reassigned to the kernel then. Any chance > that you find evidence in this by other similar (maybe other curses or > slang?) applications crashing, too. The crash happens in the libcwidget library - and aptitude is the only package that uses it. > > So, it may be bug in the kernel and not aptitude. I > > bisected it, and it is caused by the kernel commit > > d27865279f12035c730818aa1a0280fada866a37. > > This seems to be an arm64-only commit, so I assume this is really > arm64-specific. Yes. Mikulas
