Bug 444606

Summary:	sys-power/powertop-2.2-r1 segfaults immediately on start
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Timothy Miller <theosib>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Timothy Miller 2012-11-24 19:04:14 UTC

I have this installed:

[ebuild   R    ] sys-power/powertop-2.2-r1  USE="X unicode" 0 kB


When I run it, it segfaults immediately.  Running using gdb, I see this:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
nl_cache_refill (sk=0x837f570, cache=0x837fd20) at cache.c:939


To get more detail, I'd have to figure out how to get ebuild to extract the source, so I could compile it manually, but I don't know how to do that.

Comment 1 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-11-24 19:18:55 UTC

Steps to resolve for now:

> echo "=dev-libs/libnl-3.2.15" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
> emerge -1 powertop

I believe this package has been masked in Portage and is propagating through the mirrors, so syncing tomorrow might as well solve the problem. Don't forget to remove the mask over time.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 444542 ***