Bug 14284

Summary:	/usr/bin/clear dumps core
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Brian Gunney <btng>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
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Description Brian Gunney 2000-07-19 15:05:07 UTC

/usr/bin/clear dumps core.

teton:~>5 which clear
/usr/bin/clear
teton:~>6 /usr/bin/clear
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
teton:~>7 file core
core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file of 'clear' (signal 11), Intel 80386, version
1
teton:~>8 rpm -qf /usr/bin/clear
ncurses-5.0-11

Kernel 2.2.14
Chip i686

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-07-19 17:03:49 UTC

Can't reproduce it. Did you modify any libraries or are you using some odd
terminal setting?

Comment 2 Brian Gunney 2000-07-21 21:06:58 UTC

Not using any strange terminal setting.  This occurs even in the text screen
and in single user mode.  Didn't modify any libraries, except for rpm updates
from RedHat and Gnome.

Comment 3 ville.sulko 2000-12-07 21:30:45 UTC

This one most certainly is a bug, it core-dumps for me too.
Using ncurses-5.0-12. The system is upgraded from previous RedHat
version, just can't remember which one (5.2 - 6.1). The same occurs
with (as an example) with 'tput kbs', which is called from bashrc.
Most annoying... Maybe someone could provide a ncurses package with
debugging information included, that would make resolving this one
easy...

$ ldd /usr/bin/clear
libncurses.so.4 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x4001a000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40058000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)