info reader crashes, if /usr/share/info/dir is unreadable

Preuße, Hilmar <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:01:46 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello,

seems to be a rather long standing issue, but minor. The info viewer 
"info" opens the file /usr/share/info/dir, which seem to contains some 
kind of index. In case the file is not readable (e.g. due to broken 
permissions) the "info" simply crashes with an segmentation fault.

This should be avoided somehow, a decent error message would be nice.

Many thanks,
   Hilmar
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