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From: Mikhail Usenko <cygwin@inbox.ru>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: info-6.1 segmentation fault
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2016 20:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160303230057.dad325cdf38a34000b019dc4@inbox.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20160303T164508-758@post.gmane.org>

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:46:02 +0000 (UTC)
Achim Gratz <...> wrote:

> Mikhail Usenko <cygwin <at> inbox.ru> writes:
> > info 6.1 crashes to segmentation fault on every run.
> > Downgarding to version 6.0 resolves the problem.
> > Does anyone come across with this or it is my local issue?
> 
> WJFFM.  Local issue or some interaction with your environment is most
> likely.  Have you run cygcheck?
>

Yes and it was/is OK for all installed packages.

I have just found the cause:

From strace output it can be observed that version 6.1
get an access violation exception after trying to read from the .infokey file.

And then, info-6.1 crashes if the .infokey file contains the lines that 
disable the default key bindings by overriding them with the action 'invalid'
according to as described in info-stnd manual.

Perhaps it is an upstream bug.


-- 
Mike

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-03 20:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-07  0:40 [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: texinfo-6.1-1 Ken Brown
2016-03-03 15:37 ` info-6.1 segmentation fault Mikhail Usenko
2016-03-03 15:46   ` Achim Gratz
2016-03-03 20:01     ` Mikhail Usenko [this message]
2016-03-03 20:31       ` Ken Brown
2016-03-04 21:12         ` Ken Brown

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