I get the same crash (even running with powertop --help). Same version (1.97-2). This time running on Mac Mini powerpc.
Regards Allen ==23463== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==23463== Copyright (C) 2002-2011, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==23463== Using Valgrind-3.7.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==23463== Command: powertop ==23463== ==23463== Invalid read of size 4 ==23463== at 0x10035C00: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x10003357: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x10046407: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0xF9D2787: (below main) (libc-start.c:187) ==23463== Address 0xbefef41c is just below the stack ptr. To suppress, use: --workaround-gcc296-bugs=yes ==23463== ==23463== Invalid read of size 4 ==23463== at 0x10029050: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x10003357: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x10046407: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0xF9D2787: (below main) (libc-start.c:187) ==23463== Address 0xbefef41c is just below the stack ptr. To suppress, use: --workaround-gcc296-bugs=yes ==23463== ==23463== Invalid read of size 4 ==23463== at 0x10027D70: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x10003357: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x10046407: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0xF9D2787: (below main) (libc-start.c:187) ==23463== Address 0xbefef41c is just below the stack ptr. To suppress, use: --workaround-gcc296-bugs=yes ==23463== ==23463== Invalid read of size 4 ==23463== at 0x10024DE0: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x10003357: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x10046407: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0xF9D2787: (below main) (libc-start.c:187) ==23463== Address 0xbefef41c is just below the stack ptr. To suppress, use: --workaround-gcc296-bugs=yes ==23463== Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_results.powertop Cannot load from file /var/cache/powertop/saved_parameters.powertop ==23463== Invalid read of size 4 ==23463== at 0x10010838: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x100071A3: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0xF9D27EB: (below main) (libc-start.c:228) ==23463== Address 0xfffffffc is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd ==23463== ==23463== ==23463== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV) ==23463== Access not within mapped region at address 0xFFFFFFFC ==23463== at 0x10010838: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0x100071A3: ??? (in /usr/sbin/powertop) ==23463== by 0xF9D27EB: (below main) (libc-start.c:228) ==23463== If you believe this happened as a result of a stack ==23463== overflow in your program's main thread (unlikely but ==23463== possible), you can try to increase the size of the ==23463== main thread stack using the --main-stacksize= flag. ==23463== The main thread stack size used in this run was 8388608. ==23463== ==23463== HEAP SUMMARY: ==23463== in use at exit: 9,797 bytes in 22 blocks ==23463== total heap usage: 71 allocs, 49 frees, 34,527 bytes allocated ==23463== ==23463== LEAK SUMMARY: ==23463== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==23463== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==23463== possibly lost: 205 bytes in 18 blocks ==23463== still reachable: 9,592 bytes in 4 blocks ==23463== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==23463== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory ==23463== ==23463== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==23463== ERROR SUMMARY: 5 errors from 5 contexts (suppressed: 5 from 3) Segmentation fault -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org