Bug 352986 – please stabilize app-text/multitail-5.2.8 (WAS: app-text/multitail-5.2.6 crashes hitting key B)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Johannes Geiss 2011-01-27 20:29:39 UTC]

Multitail crashes hitting key B (scroll back in log)

[Comment 1 Johannes Geiss 2011-01-27 20:30:03 UTC]

Steps To Reproduce:
multitail -F /etc/multitail-site.conf /var/log/syslog

[Comment 2 Johannes Geiss 2011-01-27 20:30:53 UTC]

Created attachment 260883 [details]
Additional configuration file

[Comment 3 Johannes Geiss 2011-01-27 20:31:28 UTC]

Created attachment 260885 [details]
Original configuration file

[Comment 4 Johannes Geiss 2011-01-27 20:33:06 UTC]

"global_mark_change: yes" in multitail-site.conf triggers the bug.

[Comment 5 Johannes Geiss 2011-01-27 20:33:39 UTC]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x10018214 in scrollback_do (window_nr=0, pbuf=0x102c1400, winnrs=0x0, header=<value optimized out>) at scrollback.c:236
236 if ((pbuf -> be)[loop].pi != NULL && (pbuf -> be)[loop].pi -> cdef.term_emul != TERM_IGNORE)
(gdb) bt
#0 0x10018214 in scrollback_do (window_nr=0, pbuf=0x102c1400, winnrs=0x0, header=<value optimized out>) at scrollback.c:236
#1 0x10019018 in scrollback () at scrollback.c:724
#2 0x100145a0 in main_loop () at mt.c:2497
#3 0x10014fa8 in main (argc=<value optimized out>, argv=<value optimized out>) at mt.c:2730

[Comment 6 Johannes Geiss 2011-01-27 20:33:53 UTC]

Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.32-gentoo-r20-polaris ppc)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.32-gentoo-r20-polaris-ppc-7447-7457,_altivec_supported-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 07:15:01 +0000
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       3.4.6-r2, 4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical --nospinner --quiet-build --usepkg --binpkg-respect-use=y"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en de"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acl alsa altivec bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cgi cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus device-mapper dri dts dvd dvdr dvi emboss encode esd exif extensions extras fam fastcgi fat ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran fuse gd gdbm gdu gif gnutls gpm gtk hfs iconv icu id3tag imagemagick ipv6 jfs joystick jpeg kpathsea lcms ldap libnotify mad mikmod mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mule musicbrainz mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs objc ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppc ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection reiserfs sasl sdl server session spell spl sqlite srt ssl startup-notification stream svg sysfs tagwriting tcpd theora tiff timidity truetype twolame udev unicode usb vamp videos vorbis xcb xfce xfs xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 7 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2011-01-31 06:09:06 UTC]

Could you please file a bug upstream?

[Comment 8 Johannes Geiss 2011-01-31 08:27:40 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Could you please file a bug upstream?

You mean to file it at http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail ?
(sorry for my English but I don't know what "upstream" means.)

[Comment 9 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) 2011-01-31 08:28:49 UTC]

http://www.vanheusden.com/feedbackform.php?subject=Multitail%20BUG

[Comment 10 Johannes Geiss 2011-01-31 09:29:59 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> http://www.vanheusden.com/feedbackform.php?subject=Multitail%20BUG

Done. (I wrote an eMail and attached the configuration files.)

[Comment 11 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-06-24 06:06:33 UTC]

Does 5.2.7 or 5.2.8 fix this issue?

[Comment 12 Johannes Geiss 2011-06-25 20:15:02 UTC]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Does 5.2.7 or 5.2.8 fix this issue?

I tried 5.2.8. This fixed the issue.

[Comment 13 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2011-06-27 16:31:49 UTC]

amd64 hppa ia64 ppc sparc x86

[Comment 14 Agostino Sarubbo 2011-06-27 17:14:16 UTC]

amd64 ok

[Comment 15 Ian Delaney (RETIRED) 2011-06-27 17:18:49 UTC]

ditto

[Comment 16 Andreas Schürch 2011-06-28 12:19:41 UTC]

Looks good to go on x86 also.

[Comment 17 Markus Meier 2011-06-29 19:17:06 UTC]

amd64/x86 stable, thanks Agostino, Ian and Andreas

[Comment 18 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2011-07-09 16:49:05 UTC]

ia64/sparc stable

[Comment 19 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-08-25 12:04:58 UTC]

Stable for HPPA.

[Comment 20 Johannes Geiss 2011-08-31 06:45:54 UTC]

Please stabilize for PPC. It's working fine here since 25. June 2011.

[Comment 21 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) 2012-01-27 22:15:23 UTC]

ppc: superseded by bug 401093