Bug#760935: perl: Crashing bug on trivial programs

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:02:19 +0200, Emmanuel Surleau wrote:

> Package: perl
> Version: 5.20.0-6
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I have encountered a critical issue with both 5.20.0-6 and 5.20.1~rc2-1 versions
> of perl.
> 
> How to reproduce:
> 
>     09/09 10:29 ~/projects/integration_oed % perl -e 'use File::Find;'
>     zsh: segmentation fault  perl -e 'use File::Find;'
> 
> As git-svn crashes systematically with an error code 139, git add -p is out of
> commission and apt-file crashes as well, I suspect this issue affects a lot more
> packages (which is also why I set the priority to 'grave').

Thanks for your bug report.

Not sure what's going on here, but since this all works fine on my
system (with perl 5.20.0-6 and amd64 as well), I doubt that there's a
general grave issue. -- And I guess we would have heard before if
there were a general problem :)

% perl -e 'use File::Find;'
%

apt-file didn't crash some minutes ago; and gdb also doesn't show
anything:

Starting program: /usr/bin/perl -e 'use File::Find'
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
[Inferior 1 (process 12166) exited normally]
(gdb)
 

Cheers,
gregor, not a perl maintainer and therefor not changing severity or tags


-- 
 .''`.  Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06
 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer  -  http://www.debian.org/
 `. `'  Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
   `-   NP: Hans Theessink/Peter Ratzenbeck: If I Only Knew Her
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 949 bytes
Desc: Digital Signature
URL: <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/attachments/20140909/83d0ce83/attachment.sig>