Bug#508432: [libnet-pcap-perl] Fwknop fails with a segmentation fault on i386

[Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni]

Franck Joncourt wrote:

> Building fwknop and all its modules within a i386 chroot (Net::Pcap
> 0.05), I am able to run the test suite without any error.
> I have not encountered any problem before when running 0.04 (Debian
> package), as well.
>
> I have rebuilt libnet-pcap-perl (0.16) in the chroot, and run the test
> suite again, and then, I get the segmentation fault message you can  
> see
> in the debug.typescript file.
>
> The only difference I can see is the libnet-pcap-perl module, but I
> should say I really do not know what's wrong.
>
> If I can provide more informations, let me know.

I haven't yet took a look on how fwknop's test suite work, but can  
the bug be isolated to a specific portion of the code?

> I do have amd64/i386 chroots, and it only fails on i386.
> If you want, I can give you an access to my chroots Etch/Lenny/Sid on
> amd64 and i386. Unfortunately, I do not have access to a powerpc
> architecture.

If things goes well, I hope to soon have a PPC-like Debian box by hand.


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