[Aptitude-devel] Bug#654938: Bug#654938: aptitude gets uncaught exception by keypress in search box

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

2015-12-12 15:42 Götz Hoffart:
>On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 15:17:10 +0000 "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 + unreproducible moreinfo help
>>
>> Hi Goetz,
>>
>> 2012-01-06 23:02 Goetz Hoffart:
>> >Package: aptitude
>> >Version: 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1
>> >Severity: normal
>> >
>> >
>> >When using 'aptitude' within an SSH session initiated within "iTerm.app"
>> >(Mac OS X program) and I press /^u ("/", "^", "u"), it crashes:
>> >
>> >	Uncaught exception: Unable to read from stdin: Success
>> >
>> >If I press "/", "^", "Space", "u" instead all works fine. This crash only
>> >happens with iTerm, not with the standard Terminal.app.
>> >
>> >But keypresses of what kind ever shouldn't lead to an uncaught exception,
>> >IMO.
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>>
>> Can you (or any other user with the same combination of tools) still
>> reproduce this with recent versions?
>
>Yes. Still happens/crashed with the now newest OS X (10.11.2), newest iTerm (2.1.4) and both of aptitude of Debian 6.0.10 LTS _and_ aptitude of Debian 7.9. I can reproduce this, like described. No ‚screen‘ or ‚tmux‘ involved, but it crashes also within screen.
>
>> I wonder if it's something specific about that program, or locales.
>
>If I can help with further details, please instruct me.

Hmm, thanks.  So can you please:

- install aptitude-dbg, libcwidget*-dbg, valgrind

- run inside valgrind (the same aptitude command, with "valgrind" in the
  beginning of the line)

- repeat the actions to crash

- paste the output of valgrind in this bug report


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <mafm at gmx.pt>