Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60-16
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

arp gives a Bus Error every time it is used.
strace and gdb backtrace attached.

Script started on Tue 22 Nov 2005 07:01:03 PM PST
sundry:/home/pb# arp
Bus error
sundry:/home/pb# arp -a
Bus error
sundry:/home/pb# strace arp
execve("/usr/sbin/arp", ["arp"], [/* 16 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="sundry", ...}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x2c000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=21129, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 21129, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7001c000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\2\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\2\0\0\0\1\0\1\312"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1199100, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 1268776, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 
0x70030000
mprotect(0x70150000, 89128, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap(0x7015e000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x11e000) = 0x7015e000
mmap(0x70164000, 7208, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x70164000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x70166000
munmap(0x7001c000, 21129)               = 0
open("/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=290576, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 290576, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x70168000
close(3)                                = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x2c000
brk(0x4e000)                            = 0x4e000
open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2582, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x701b0000
read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 8192) = 2582
read(3, "", 8192)                       = 0
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x701b0000, 8192)                = 0
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/net-tools.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 3
open("/proc/net/arp", O_RDONLY)         = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x701b0000
read(4, "IP address       HW type     Fla"..., 1024) = 310
--- SIGBUS (Bus error) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGBUS +++
sundry:/home/pb# gdb arp
GNU gdb 6.3-debian
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "sparc-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/sbin/arp 
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)

Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
0x70104220 in inet_aton () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x70104220 in inet_aton () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x00014028 in ?? ()
#2  0x00014028 in ?? ()
Previous frame identical to this frame (corrupt stack?)
(gdb) The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) y
sundry:/home/pb# exit

Script done on Tue 22 Nov 2005 07:01:56 PM PST



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: sparc (sparc64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-sparc64-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages net-tools depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

net-tools recommends no packages.

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