Package: bash Version: 5.1~rc1-2 Hi!
Up-to-date Debian testing GNU/Linux x86_64 system. Given a directory/path '/home/thomas/Mail/thomas\@schwinge.name/list/käufer\*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de': special characters '@', 'ä' ('\303\244'), '*', and directory content as follows: $ find /home/thomas/Mail/thomas\@schwinge.name/list/käufer\*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/ -ls 4563522 4 drwxrwx--- 4 thomas thomas 4096 Oct 4 10:14 /home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/ 11485361 4 drwxrwx--- 5 thomas thomas 4096 Oct 4 10:14 /home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/2020-10 11485362 4 drwxrwx--- 2 thomas thomas 4096 Oct 10 15:01 /home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/2020-10/tmp 11485363 4 drwxrwx--- 2 thomas thomas 4096 Oct 11 12:39 /home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/2020-10/new 11485364 4 drwxrwx--- 2 thomas thomas 4096 Oct 4 10:14 /home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/2020-10/cur 4564560 4 drwxrwx--- 5 thomas thomas 4096 Sep 1 10:34 /home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/2020-09 4564561 4 drwxrwx--- 2 thomas thomas 4096 Sep 30 22:43 /home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/2020-09/tmp 4564562 4 drwxrwx--- 2 thomas thomas 4096 Oct 3 17:20 /home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/2020-09/new 4564563 4 drwxrwx--- 2 thomas thomas 4096 Sep 1 10:34 /home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/2020-09/cur ..., that is, two empty maildirs: '2020-09', '2020-10', and: $ locale LANG=C.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=C LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.utf8 LC_TIME=de_DE.utf8 LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY=de_DE.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.utf8 LC_PAPER=de_DE.utf8 LC_NAME=de_DE.utf8 LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.utf8 LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.utf8 LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.utf8 LC_ALL= ..., we get: $ strace -ff -o s bash -c ': /home/thomas/Mail/thomas\@schwinge.name/list/käufer\*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/*' Segmentation fault ..., that is, SIGSEGV, supposedly when bash tries to expand the last path component glob ('*'): [...] openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/locale/C.UTF-8/LC_CTYPE", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=201272, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 201272, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7f829f2b5000 close(3) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 getpeername(0, 0x7fff90f70c20, [16]) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=SEGV_MAPERR, si_addr=NULL} --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ There is no such problem under 'LC_ALL=C': $ LC_ALL=C strace -ff -o s_C bash -c ': /home/thomas/Mail/thomas\@schwinge.name/list/käufer\*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/*' [...] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 getpeername(0, 0x7ffe452fba20, [16]) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket) rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/thomas/Mail/tho...@schwinge.name/list/k\303\244ufer*innen-forum.forum.fairmondo.de/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0770, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 getdents64(3, /* 4 entries */, 32768) = 112 getdents64(3, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0 close(3) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 exit_group(0) = ? +++ exited with 0 +++ (That means, I do have a workaround.) I cannot tell when exactly this started failing, but it must've been very recently, last few days. Recent (automated) package updates that are supposedly relevant, per '/var/log/dpkg.log': [...] 2020-10-19 08:28:50 upgrade libc6:amd64 2.31-3 2.31-4 [...] 2020-10-19 08:29:59 upgrade libc-l10n:all 2.31-3 2.31-4 [...] 2020-10-19 08:32:22 upgrade locales-all:amd64 2.31-3 2.31-4 [...] 2020-10-19 08:37:57 upgrade locales:all 2.31-3 2.31-4 [...] I can't confirm for sure, but I'm reasonably confident that the problem did not occur at this point. Then, this night: [...] 2020-10-22 06:51:53 upgrade bash:amd64 5.0-7 5.1~rc1-2 [...] So that's probably it. I'll later retry with downgraded bash. Grüße Thomas