>Hi, > >I am the maintainer for GNU parted, and something in the dist changed >around feb 21-23 which broke parted. Parted now segfaults as it starts >up, in libc function towlower (). This worked fine before the 21st Feb, >so something has changed within that time, and the only thing that parted >depends on which has changed is e2fsprogs (which can't be the problem, >since it never gets to execute any e2fs code, and if you build parted >with ./configure --disable-nls it doesn't segfault) and libc6. > >Has something changed? Please get back to me. I've included a gdb >backtrace. I don't know if any other nls programs have been affected, >so maybe there's something wrong with the way parted is using nls, but >it seems strange that this has never happened before ...
This was indeed a glibc bug, it is fixed in upstream 2.1.3 final (Debian 2.1.3-5). -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>
