Hi, On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 07:12:28 -0500 > From: Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debian-devel@lists.DEBIAN.org, debian-user@lists.DEBIAN.org > Subject: Re: adduser in hamm dumps core ! > > Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > have all hamm system and just found that > > adduser dumps core independently of > > any given input. > > Hi Oleg! > > Does this include when it is given no input, as in: > > # adduser > adduser: I need a name to add. > # > > If so, then it will be easier for people to test it without actually > adding users. yes, it dumps without any user intervention ;) > > Anyhow, I have an all hamm system (up to date against my mirror as of > 24 hours ago, giving me adduser version 3.8) and in response to your > query I ran "adduser <new_user_name>", answered the questions, and it > worked. interesting... me too - all stuff upgraded and i did reboot if it matters > adduser is a perl script, and bug#17393 reports perl segfaulting and > dumping core on a simple script. Whereas Vitaly Belostotsky provided > a four line script which does this consistently, I have a couple > hundred line script which does this much more sporadically and is > highly dependent on its input data (and is even sensitive to print > statements that I added for debugging purposes). Since adduser reads > system information, it could be that the data it gets from your system > is just right to trigger this bug. yes, it might be the case. i just checked and looks like perl depends on both libc5 and libc6 ! > I bumped the severity of bug#17393 up to important yesterday. thanks you OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
