From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: a2ps crashes when used as an ordinary user. however running it as su or su - it prints fine. I am running a2ps-4.13b-15.i386.r on kernel 2.4.9-31smp. One more detail, a2ps --version runs fine and gives the version number (as ordinary user), but anything else crashes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. >> a2ps packages Segmentation fault (core dumped) (Note "packages" is an ascii file with, as you probably guessed, all package names) 2. >> a2ps --version GNU a2ps 4.13 Written by Akim Demaille, Miguel Santana. Copyright (c) 1988-1993 Miguel Santana Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Akim Demaille, Miguel Santana This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 3. as su or su - the command "a2ps packages" just prints the file packages fine. Actual Results: see above Expected Results: file printed Additional info: see above
This sounds just like bug #40532, which has been fixed in the package provided with Red Hat Linux 7.3. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 40532 ***