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coreutils package

dd segfaults with LANG different from C

Bug #56429 reported by Romano Giannetti on 2006-08-15

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #42264: language pack po files drop cflag comment which causes segfaults in e. g. 'dd'. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	coreutils (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: coreutils

Very easy to reproduce here:

(0)hazel:~/research/oximetro/oxigit/regression_tests% echo $LANG
en_GB.UTF-8

(0)hazel:~/research/oximetro/oxigit/regression_tests% dd if=fake_measure.rwc of=fake340.rwc count=40000
683+1 records in
683+1 records out
zsh: 10667 segmentation fault dd if=fake_measure.rwc of=fake340.rwc count=40000

but:

(139)hazel:~/research/oximetro/oxigit/regression_tests% LANG=C dd if=fake_measure.rwc of=fake340.rwc count=40000
683+1 records in
683+1 records out
349760 bytes (350 kB) copied, 0.003817 seconds, 91.6 MB/s

it seems a bug in the translation of the last message.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote on 2006-08-15:

Rejecting as duplicate

Changed in coreutils:
status:	Unconfirmed → Rejected

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Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti) wrote on 2006-08-15:

Ok, sorry for the noise. I have searched the bug before, but "dd" gave too much results, and "dd LANG" no one.

OTOH, it would be nice to add a "package" filtering to

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bugs?advanced=1

I know it is possible to arrive to a filtering like that, but it is not evident from the "report a bug" main page. So I searched it, and not found, and filed a new bug.

Will try more in the future, but I really think that "advanced search" on the launchpad should have the possibility to get a bit more "advanced"...

Romano

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote on 2006-08-16: Re: [Bug 56429] Re: dd segfaults with LANG different from C

The trick is to look at the bugs for the sourcepackage:
http://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bugs