Context : I was cleaning some KDE3.5 packages and wanted to use qdepends instead of "equery d" which is slower. Invoking "qdepends -Q kpf" gives a nice crash log : *** buffer overflow detected ***: qdepends terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x48)[0xb7e9fae8] /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e9db30] /lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e9d1b8] /lib/libc.so.6(_IO_default_xsputn+0xa0)[0xb7e26610] /lib/libc.so.6(_IO_vfprintf+0x3785)[0xb7dfdc75] /lib/libc.so.6(__vsprintf_chk+0xa7)[0xb7e9d267] /lib/libc.so.6(__sprintf_chk+0x2d)[0xb7e9d1ad] qdepends[0x804b477] qdepends[0x805a21d] qdepends[0x805b0a1] qdepends[0x805b4f9] /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5)[0xb7dd3725] qdepends(strcasestr+0x1b1)[0x8049d61] ======= Memory map: ======== 08048000-0806e000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 233156 /usr/bin/q 0806e000-0806f000 r--p 00025000 08:08 233156 /usr/bin/q 0806f000-0807a000 rw-p 00026000 08:08 233156 /usr/bin/q 0807a000-080a7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] b7dae000-b7dba000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 343623 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so.1 b7dba000-b7dbb000 r--p 0000b000 08:08 343623 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so.1 b7dbb000-b7dbc000 rw-p 0000c000 08:08 343623 /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/libgcc_s.so.1 b7dbc000-b7dbd000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7dbd000-b7ef9000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 427662 /lib/libc-2.9.so b7ef9000-b7efb000 r--p 0013c000 08:08 427662 /lib/libc-2.9.so b7efb000-b7efc000 rw-p 0013e000 08:08 427662 /lib/libc-2.9.so b7efc000-b7f00000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 b7f2d000-b7f49000 r-xp 00000000 08:08 427507 /lib/ld-2.9.so b7f49000-b7f4a000 r--p 0001b000 08:08 427507 /lib/ld-2.9.so b7f4a000-b7f4b000 rw-p 0001c000 08:08 427507 /lib/ld-2.9.so bf8a3000-bf8b9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] Abandon Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1."qdepends -Q kpf" 2. 3. Actual Results: Crash Expected Results: Answer revdep-rebuild was building some packages in another terminal. Here's the emerge --info: Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r8-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_XP_3200+-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:30:02 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /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/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/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 /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ " LANG="fr_FR.utf8" LC_ALL="fr_FR.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="fr fr_FR" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa arts bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr clamav cli consolekit cracklib crypt ctype cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gd gdbm geoip gif gimp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg kde kpathsea ldap libnotify mad mikmod mjpeg mmx mng modules mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection scanner sdl session spell spl sse ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora thunar tiff truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis win32codecs wxwindows x264 x86 xine xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr fr_FR" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** Bug 292305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i believe this is fixed in portage-utils-0.3.1
