Bug 100545 – www-client/links-2.1pre17-r1 segfaults with javascript enabled

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bill Good 2005-07-27 20:20:57 UTC]

When select sites are visited with javascript enabled in links2.1pre17-r1, the
following error occurs:
Internel Error at ipret.c:628: Aiee! Unknown variable type
Forcing core dump
Segmentation fault

So far, I've produced this on two sites:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php and
http://forums.livingwithstyle.com.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge links with USE="javascript" emerge links
2.Execute links and ensure that javascript is on.
3.Go to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/index.php.

Actual Results:  
Above segmentation fault.

Expected Results:  
Displayed the page.

emerge info:
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apm arts avi bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd emboss encode
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad
mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png
python quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts unicode xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Attached is a links_debug.err. I don't know if it will be of any help. After
looking through it, I believe that this may have something to do with google
adwords.

[Comment 1 Bill Good 2005-07-27 20:22:41 UTC]

Created attachment 64490 [details]
Links debug dump

[Comment 2 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-07-28 10:07:34 UTC]

I get a segmentation fault too, problem confirmed.

[Comment 3 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-07-28 16:18:35 UTC]

I e-mailed upstream and Mikulas said it will be fixed when they have time for it.

[Comment 4 Sophie Hamilton 2005-08-07 05:31:47 UTC]

I can confirm this; it just happened with me on another page -
http://terrania.us/conga.html . (No, this isn't an advert; I don't have anything
to do with the guy behind that page.)

[Comment 5 Mrugesh Karnik 2005-08-08 10:10:42 UTC]

I can confirm this too. Happened for me on http://gentoo-wiki.com and http://www.pesinsight.com

[Comment 6 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-08-08 11:02:39 UTC]

Have you guys tried running it inside a gdb session? For some reason, it does
not crash for me.

wget http://terrania.us/conga.html
links /path/conga.html --> crashes
gdb --args links /path/conga.html, run --> does not crash

[Comment 7 Andrea Barisani (RETIRED) 2005-08-28 10:22:20 UTC]

links 2.1pre18 has been released by upstream and it does solve the issue

[Comment 8 Marcelo Goes (RETIRED) 2005-08-28 15:16:59 UTC]

Bumped in cvs.
Thanks guys!

[Comment 9 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-08-29 08:47:54 UTC]

*** Bug 104143 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***