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[apport] bash alias (alias kill='pkill') causes mc to crash

Bug #94438 reported by Jiim on 2007-03-21

4

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	mc (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	MOTU

Bug Description

Binary package hint: mc

mc halts/freezes when executed from terminal.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Mar 21 15:45:21 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/mc
Package: mc 1:4.6.1-6ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: mc
ProcCwd: /home/wojtek/mnt/iso
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/home/wojtek/bin:/home/wojtek/opt/qemu-19022007/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
Signal: 5
SourcePackage: mc
StacktraceTop:
__kernel_vsyscall ()
sigsuspend () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
?? ()
?? ()
?? ()
Uname: Linux WJuszczyk 2.6.20-12-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 18 03:10:16 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev scanner video

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Jiim (wojciech-juszczyk) wrote on 2007-03-21:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (167 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Disassembly.txt Edit (419 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (659 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (526 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (224 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (251 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote on 2007-03-21:

#2

Thanks for your bug report.

Changed in mc:
assignee:	nobody → motu
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2007-03-21: Symbolic stack trace

#3

Stacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (1023 bytes, text/plain)

StacktraceTop:__kernel_vsyscall ()
sigsuspend () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
feed_subshell (how=0, fail_on_error=<value optimized out>) at subshell.c:1014
init_subshell () at subshell.c:485
main (argc=) at main.c:2260

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2007-03-21: Symbolic threaded stack trace

#4

ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced) Edit (1.0 KiB, text/plain)

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Jiim (wojciech-juszczyk) wrote on 2007-03-22: Re: [apport] mc crashed with signal 5 in __kernel_vsyscall()

#5

I've found out what causes mc to freeze: it was an alias in ~/.bash_aliases:

alias kill='pkill'

After removing that alias everything runs just fine.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote on 2008-12-23:

#6

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

Changed in mc:
importance:	Medium → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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Jiim (wojciech-juszczyk) wrote on 2009-01-12:

#7

It's not reproducible in 8.10.

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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote on 2009-04-14:

#8

marking as fix released, as per your last comment

Changed in mc (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Fix Released

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