Incomplete .depend.boot (BTS #534526)?

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:45:04AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Petter Reinholdtsen]
> > This test suite script is able to reproduce it when building for
> > SuSe.  I rewrote it to use only start symlinks in runleve 1, to
> > avoid the areas where SuSe and Debian differ.  Do you see the error
> > in your build too?
> 
> One can even remove the references to mountnfs, and the bug still
> trigger.
> 
> Reading the source and adding some debug output, I am starting to
> suspect the problem is in expand_faci().  I still do not quite
> understand that code, but managed to get the test case working by
> adding this patch.  It causes other test cases to segfault, so it
> isn't the correct fix, but I thought it best to pass on the
> information.
> 
> 
> Index: insserv.c
> ===================================================================
> --- insserv.c   (revision 922)
> +++ insserv.c   (working copy)
> @@ -2043,6 +2106,7 @@
>                         free(rent->r[0].ref);
>                     rent->r[0] = rnxt->r[0];
>                     ++(*rent->r[0].ref);
> +                   insert(&rnxt->r_list, head);
>                 } else {
>                     repl_t *restrict subst;
>                     if (posix_memalign((void*)&subst, sizeof(void*), alignof(repl_t)) != 0)
> 
> This is as far I have have gotten with debugging this issue.

You may try the attached patch, does this solve your problem *and*
outlive all other test cases.

       Werner

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