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coreutils package

sort seg faults

Bug #370065 reported by Tim Gardner
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
coreutils (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Steve Langasek

Bug Description

sort seg faults in Karmic, perhaps after having been built with gcc 4.4. It happens in both 32 bit and 64 chroots.

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Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) wrote :

To reproduce, unpack the attachement fileGEObpc.tgz

cd fileGEObpc
sort -um -o module-list/nic-shared-modules module-list/nic-shared-modules work

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in coreutils (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Steve Langasek (vorlon)
importance: Undecided → High
status: New → Triaged
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Jim Meyering (meyering) wrote :

I fixed that upstream with this change:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=25eb4c69097ca4f5665b050cfa4247a19ffd8c55

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package coreutils - 7.2-1ubuntu1

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coreutils (7.2-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/99_sort_m_segfault: patch from upstream to fix a segfault
    when input and output files are the same; thanks, Otavio Salvador and Jim
    Meyering. LP: #370065.

 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:47:52 +0000

Changed in coreutils (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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