On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 11:34:32PM +0100, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Mandb recently started to apply seccomp policy to its subprocesses. > Unfortunatelly, the seccom policy is badly written, so that > mandb for foreign architectures (i386 or x32) crashes. > > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > > Install man-db:i386 or man-db:x32 on an amd64 system, try to view some > manpage and you'll get crashes. > > The bug also happens if you use man-db:amd64, but /bin/sh is pointing > to i386 or x32 shell (i.e. if you install dash:i386 or dash:x32 and > make it a default shell).
I guess I could add some other likely architectures to the filter, but it's not particularly clear which ones I should add in general. The scenarios above seem like rather contrived situations: can you explain how and why you have an installation like this so that I can better understand it? -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
