RHEL Engineering is moving the tracking of its product development work on RHEL 6 through RHEL 9 to Red Hat Jira (issues.redhat.com). If you're a Red Hat customer, please continue to file support cases via the Red Hat customer portal. If you're not, please head to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira and file new tickets here. Individual Bugzilla bugs in the statuses "NEW", "ASSIGNED", and "POST" are being migrated throughout September 2023. Bugs of Red Hat partners with an assigned Engineering Partner Manager (EPM) are migrated in late September as per pre-agreed dates. Bugs against components "kernel", "kernel-rt", and "kpatch" are only migrated if still in "NEW" or "ASSIGNED". If you cannot log in to RH Jira, please consult article #7032570. That failing, please send an e-mail to the RH Jira admins at rh-issues@redhat.com to troubleshoot your issue as a user management inquiry. The email creates a ServiceNow ticket with Red Hat. Individual Bugzilla bugs that are migrated will be moved to status "CLOSED", resolution "MIGRATED", and set with "MigratedToJIRA" in "Keywords". The link to the successor Jira issue will be found under "Links", have a little "two-footprint" icon next to it, and direct you to the "RHEL project" in Red Hat Jira (issue links are of type "https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-XXXX", where "X" is a digit). This same link will be available in a blue banner at the top of the page informing you that that bug has been migrated.
Bug 649224 - [abrt] sort - segfault with LC_TIME different from other multibyte locales
Summary: [abrt] sort - segfault with LC_TIME different from other multibyte locales
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: coreutils
Version: 6.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Ondrej Vasik
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
URL:
Whiteboard: abrt_hash:f3762814c36b2b31c84f03c78d2...
Depends On: 647938
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-03 09:29 UTC by Ondrej Vasik
Modified: 2011-05-19 13:50 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: coreutils-8.4-10.el6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, when the multibyte LC_TIME differed from LC_CTYPE, an assertion failure caused the sort utility to crash irrespective of the parameters provided to it. This is fixed to prevent a crash when the sort utility is run and now works as expected.
Clone Of: 647938
Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 13:50:56 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0646 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE coreutils bug fix update 2011-05-18 18:11:00 UTC

Description Ondrej Vasik 2010-11-03 09:29:33 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #647938 +++

abrt version: 1.1.13
architecture: x86_64
Attached file: backtrace
cmdline: sort --version
component: coreutils
crash_function: raise
executable: /bin/sort
kernel: 2.6.34.7-61.fc13.x86_64
package: coreutils-8.4-9.fc13
rating: 4
reason: Process /bin/sort was killed by signal 6 (SIGABRT)
release: Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
time: 1288387960
uid: 500

comment
-----
sort from coreutils just crashes and does not work at all. Output is

sort: sort.c:1306: inittables_mb: Assertion `mblength != (size_t)-1 && mblength != (size_t)-2' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

I'm using coreutils-8.4.9.fc13 on an updated F13 system (x86_64).
I have also tried to rebuild coreutils-8.5-5.fc14.1.src.rpm for F13, but the result is the same.

How to reproduce
-----
1. run "sort" in any way (like "sort --version")

--- Additional comment from lukas.middendorf on 2010-10-29 17:37:53 EDT ---

Created attachment 456566 [details]
File: backtrace

--- Additional comment from kdudka on 2010-10-29 18:39:22 EDT ---

Thank you for filing the bug!  Please append the output of 'locale'.

--- Additional comment from lukas.middendorf on 2010-10-29 18:52:30 EDT ---

Output of 'locale' is
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME=de_DE
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

--- Additional comment from kdudka on 2010-10-30 11:46:11 EDT ---

Right, sort needs to be fixed.  The following should get you over the problem until we fix it properly:

$ export LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8

--- Additional comment from kdudka on 2010-11-02 13:31:43 EDT ---

Created attachment 457239 [details]
proposed fix

--- Additional comment from kdudka on 2010-11-02 14:33:16 EDT ---

Created attachment 457246 [details]
proposed fix V2 (against rawhide)

--- Additional comment from ovasik on 2010-11-03 05:28:24 EDT ---

Comment on attachment 457246 [details]
proposed fix V2 (against rawhide)

Thanks Kamil, looks fine, although some hunks in your new patch are IMHO unrelated to this issue :).
Comment 5 Misha H. Ali 2011-05-11 01:05:44 UTC 
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, when the multibyte LC_TIME differed from LC_CTYPE, an assertion failure caused the sort utility to crash irrespective of the parameters provided to it. This is fixed to prevent a crash when the sort utility is run and now works as expected.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:50:56 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0646.html
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.