Bug 359179 – app-misc/vifm-0.5 segfaults with ncurses-5.8

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Nikolaj Šujskij 2011-03-16 15:51:12 UTC]

That's pretty much all of it. app-misc/vifm-0.5 segfaults on startup on up-to-date ~amd64 systems. On (almost) stable amd64 it seems to work all right.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # emerge --ask =app-misc/vifm-0.5
2. $ vifm
Actual Results:  
Segmentation fault

Expected Results:  
vifm's up'n'runnin'

 % emerge --info
Portage 2.2.0_alpha27 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.38-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.38-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E6750_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:45:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.2_p8
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r2, 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.7.0
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.68
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.21
sys-devel/gcc:       4.5.2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:      3.82
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync: rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

Layman-stuff
    location: /usr/local/portage
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 0

lokal
    location: /home/sterkrig/dev/overlay
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 1

Installed sets: 
ABI="amd64"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
ACCEPT_PROPERTIES="*"
ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci"
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"
ARCH="amd64"
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AUTOCLEAN="yes"
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CAMERAS="ptp2"
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CDEFINE_x86="__i386__"
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe"
CFLAGS_x86="-m32"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CLEAN_DELAY="5"
COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog"
COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules"
COLORFGBG="15;default;0"
COLORTERM="rxvt-xpm"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CVS_RSH="ssh"
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DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID="awesome/urxvtc/2835-1-VerkDatorn_TIME101333"
DISPLAY=":1"
DISTCC_LOG=""
DISTCC_VERBOSE=""
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
ECHANGELOG_USER="Nickolaj Stjujsckij <[e-mail]>"
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EPREFIX=""
EROOT="/"
FCFLAGS=""
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy distcc distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 3 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}""
FETCHCOMMAND_RSYNC="rsync -avP "${URI}" "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}""
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HG="/usr/bin/hg"
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MAIL="/var/mail/sterkrig"
MAKEOPTS="--jobs=7 --load-average=3"
MANPATH="/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.21/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.2/man:/usr/share/postgresql-8.4/man:/usr/share/postgresql-9.0/man"
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[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-03-16 16:55:43 UTC]

Which version of ncurses? Could you provide a gdb backtrace?

[Comment 2 Nikolaj Šujskij 2011-03-16 18:28:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Which version of ncurses?

 sys-libs/ncurses-5.8


> Could you provide a gdb backtrace?

 I suppose I could, but it'd take time, since I'm not that much into debugging. Does it work for you?

[Comment 3 Dave Day 2011-03-18 22:55:39 UTC]

Not just amd64.  I run ~x86 and vifm  broke when I emerged ncurses-5.8.  It has worked fine with all previous ncurses.  Going back to ncurses-5.7-r6 fixed it.  ViFM dies on line 701 of keys.c which is the first call to redrawwin(lwin,title).

Thanks,
Dave Day

PS This is my first interaction with a bugzilla type thing so I have yet to learn what other stuff I am supposed to do.  I'll figure that out and comeback.

[Comment 4 Nikolaj Šujskij 2011-03-19 07:08:03 UTC]

Indeed, downgrading ncurses fixes the issue. Maybe, description should be changed to "app-misc/vifm-0.5 segfaults with sys-libs/ncurses-5.8"? Seems like I cannot do it myself.

Here's backtrace attached, but it's not that more informative than Dave's message. Maybe I missed something in our "Get meaningful backtraces" guide, in that case please let me know.

[Comment 5 Nikolaj Šujskij 2011-03-19 07:09:57 UTC]

Created attachment 266441 [details]
ViFM/ncurses 5.8 crash backtrace

[Comment 6 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) 2011-03-29 20:44:54 UTC]

This was indeed an issue with ncurses-5.8. I've added a patch (got it from the arch package) in vifm-0.5-r1 that fixes the issue.

Thanks for reporting :)