Bug#1133881: info: "info sed" dumps core

Preuße, Hilmar <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:29:31 +0200

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Am 15.04.2026 um 07:59 schrieb Hilmar Preusse:

Hello Bjarni,

>     * What led up to the situation?
> 
>    info sed
> 
>     * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> Segmentation fault         info sed
> 
> Return value is 139.
> 
>     * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
>       no core dump
> 


Of course I'm unable to reproduce the issue, neither on arm64 nor on an 
unstable amd64 in a chroot.

1. Does the issue only occur for sed or for any info page you call?
2. Could you post your file /usr/share/info/dir ?

Hilmar
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