Bug 528410
| Summary: | awk fails with "internal error: segfault" when run by makewhatis | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ben Liblit <liblit> | ||||
| Component: | gawk | Assignee: | Jan Zeleny <jzeleny> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | kasal | ||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2010-04-29 10:19:14 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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Created attachment 364408 [details] complete log of output from "makewhatis" Description of problem: As used by makewhatis, awk fails with an "internal error: segfault". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): man-1.6f-20.fc11.i586 gawk-3.1.6-5.fc11.i586 How reproducible: 100% reproducible, every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Become root. 2. Run "/usr/sbin/makewhatis" with no arguments. Actual results: Multiple lines of output reporting "awk: cmd. line:63: fatal error: internal error: segfault". A log of the full output is attached to this report. Expected results: awk should not fail; no error output should be produced. Additional info: "makewhatis" is run daily by cron, due to a "/etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron" script. Thus, every day this cron job runs and fails, leading to diagnostic output being mailed to root.