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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to nano in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1509081 Title: nano segfaults as root after upgrade to 15.10 Status in nano package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in nano source package in Wily: Fix Released Bug description: [Impact] On systems with a long hostname, nano either segfaults or refuses to work properly. [Test Case] 1- set a long hostname with "hostname thisisareallyreallyreallylonghostname" 2- try and edit a file: "nano /etc/hosts" 3- make sure there is no segfault, or error in nano window: "Couldn't determine host name..." [Regression Potential] Patch is quite simple an obvious. A regression would mean lock files wouldn't work properly. ---- Original description: Description: Ubuntu 15.10 Release: 15.10 nano: Installed: 2.4.2-1 Candidate: 2.4.2-1 Version table: *** 2.4.2-1 0 500 http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status After upgrading Ubuntu 15.04 to 15.10, when I run nano as root on a file it just segfaults. I'm not having this problem on other 15.04->15.10 upgrades strace is https://p.defau.lt/?q7xGwt3HoqB74xTawUUHDA catchsegv is https://p.defau.lt/?0SPQY_bDj6F6j1ZKeToQoA Under gdb with nano-dbgsym installed, it gives #0 main (argc=2, argv=0x7fffffffe688) at ../../src/nano.c:2768 If I run it as sudo nano filename.txt, it gives an error as below rather than segfaulting [ Couldn't determine hostname for lock file: File name too long ] Both my user and root have the same locale settings. I've tried regenerating the locales To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nano/+bug/1509081/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp