Public bug reported: On AMD64/edgy, cvs seems to consistently dump core on my machine. Version of CVS package:
% dpkg -l cvs | grep cvs ii cvs 1.12.13-3 Concurrent Versions System The CVSROOT is valid, and the same repository worked fine with Dapper: % ls $CVSROOT CVSROOT interfaces pgsql sup But most CVS operations on existing or new checkouts from this repository result in a core dump. Unfortunately, the back trace isn't much help without debugging symbols: (I can rebuild w/ them if needed.) % gdb --quiet cvs (gdb) set args co -d /tmp/x pgsql (gdb) r Starting program: /usr/bin/cvs co -d /tmp/x pgsql (no debugging symbols found) [...] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 47250665700064 (LWP 7537)] (no debugging symbols found) [...] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. (gdb) bt #0 0x00000000004350a7 in error () #1 0x000000000042dd40 in error () #2 0x000000000042ed55 in error () #3 0x00002af966e110c4 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x0000000000404f19 in ?? () #5 0x00007fff44342c28 in ?? () #6 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () "cvs -t" displays the following: % cvs -t -t co -d /tmp/x pgsql -> main: Session ID is b5uHAIr1lEsmfqQr -> Name_Root ((null), (null)) -> parse_cvsroot (/home/neilc/postgres/cvs_root) -> walklist ( list=0x5b6b20, proc=0x42dbc0, closure=(nil) ) -> main loop with CVSROOT=/home/neilc/postgres/cvs_root -> parse_config (/home/neilc/postgres/cvs_root) -> new_config () Trying to run "cvs up" on an existing checkout core dumps in the same way, with the same "-t" output as above. The new_config() call above suggests that the problem might be caused by a malformed .cvsrc file or the like, but I moved that file out of the way and it didn't change this behavior. Building the vanilla 1.12.3 upstream release from source yields a fully functional cvs binary that doesn't exhibit these problems. ** Affects: cvs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- cvs dumps core (AMD64) https://launchpad.net/bugs/65719 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs