Created attachment 355438 [details] one line patch to solve segfault of anacron on ppc64 Description of problem: The anacron program segfault on PPC64 (F11). The cause is the line: readtab.c: r = match_rx("^([[:digit:]]+)$", value, 1); should be r = match_rx("^([[:digit:]]+)$", value, 0); Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anacron-2.3-75.fc11.ppc How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run anacron -s -d Actual results: Anacron 2.3 started on 2009-07-28 Segmentation fault Workaround: - comment the line containing RANDOM_DELAY in /etc/anacrontab - or apply the attached patch.
Thank you for your patch.
anacron-2.3-78.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/anacron-2.3-78.fc11
anacron-2.3-78.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update anacron'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8117
anacron-2.3-78.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.