Debian Bug report logs - #13500
dselect should better pinpoint the location of core files

Package: dselect; Maintainer for dselect is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dselect is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>

Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:48:18 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org:
Bug#13500. (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>:
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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Pacakge: dpkg

From dselect:

Do you want to download the required files [y]:
Downloading files... use ^C to stop
Connecting to ftp.debian.org...

installation script was terminated by a signal: Segmentation fault.
(It left a coredump.)
Press RETURN to continue.
 
But there is no core file left around, at least not where the user can 
see it.

Bug assigned to package `dpkg'. Request was from James Troup <J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

Severity set to `wishlist'. Request was from Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dselect'. Request was from Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).

Reply sent to Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>:
You have taken responsibility. (Sat, 02 Mar 2019 04:00:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Notification sent to Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu>:
Bug acknowledged by developer. (Sat, 02 Mar 2019 04:00:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Message #16 received at 13500-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Hi!

On Mon, 1997-09-29 at 23:36:22 -0700, Klee Dienes wrote:
> Pacakge: dpkg

> From dselect:
> 
> Do you want to download the required files [y]:
> Downloading files... use ^C to stop
> Connecting to ftp.debian.org...
> 
> installation script was terminated by a signal: Segmentation fault.
> (It left a coredump.)
> Press RETURN to continue.
>  
> But there is no core file left around, at least not where the user can 
> see it.

This is coming really from libdpkg, but I don't think this bug is
really actionable. The core files generated, might not even have been
dumped if the kernel is configured to pipe them into a daemon for
example. If they are dumped they would usually drop in the process
CWD, but that information is not even going to be available once the
process has been terminated, so there's no real way for libdpkg to get
it.

I'm thus going to close this report, as not actionable, sorry. :)

Thanks,
Guillem

Information forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>:
Bug#13500; Package dselect. (Sat, 02 Mar 2019 06:51:03 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

Acknowledgement sent to Dato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>:
Extra info received and forwarded to list. Copy sent to Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>.

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Debian Bug report logs - #13500 dselect should better pinpoint the location of core files

Debian Bug report logs - #13500
dselect should better pinpoint the location of core files