FS#5016 - abs fails with runtime errors

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Andreas (xanan) - Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 11:31 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 06:33 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

After a system update (in which pacman was updated as well) I tried running 'abs', which resulted in the following output:

-------------------[snippet]-------------------
(remote)[root@trinity]:/var# abs


***
*** runtime error:
*** Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL0
***

use option @M3stackdump to get a stack trace
/usr/bin/abs: line 18: 19203 Aborted cvsup -L 1 -r 0 -g -b $ABSROOT -P $CONNMODE -c .sup /etc/abs/supfile.$sup


***
*** runtime error:
*** Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL0
***

use option @M3stackdump to get a stack trace
/usr/bin/abs: line 18: 19204 Aborted cvsup -L 1 -r 0 -g -b $ABSROOT -P $CONNMODE -c .sup /etc/abs/supfile.$sup


***
*** runtime error:
*** Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL0
***

use option @M3stackdump to get a stack trace
/usr/bin/abs: line 18: 19205 Aborted cvsup -L 1 -r 0 -g -b $ABSROOT -P $CONNMODE -c .sup /etc/abs/supfile.$sup
-------------------[/snippet]-------------------

I've tried to reinstall pacman, but it doesn't make a difference. My running version is 2.9.8.
Anyone else come across this problem?
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 15 July 2006, 22:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   bug 4969  contains the actual cause of these errors.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 11 July 2006, 21:55 GMT
Oddness. Works fine for me.

You could try using "csup" instead. There's a package for it.

The current abs script doesn't know about it yet, but you could cheat by --remove'ing the cvsup package and creating a /usr/bin/cvsup symlink to /usr/bin/csup, just for testing.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 13 July 2006, 12:56 GMT
Do you have the "wins" option listed in /etc/nsswitch.conf for hosts? (hosts: wins files dns)

The wins module and several other things in samba are broken, ubuntu has one or more fixes in their package, which we could use.
Comment by Andreas (xanan) - Friday, 14 July 2006, 01:46 GMT
JGC: Yes, I do have the "wins" option in my nsswitch.conf. Like so:

hosts: files wins dns

After removing "wins", it works perfectly.

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