[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#750593: xsltproc: bus error on some architectures

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Adrian,

On Sun, Jan 03, 2016 at 11:45:45AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> We are constantly running into this issue on sparc64 as well.
Thank you for taking the time to look into this in more detail, much
appreciated.

> I have already updated the kernel to 4.3.3 from unstable as well as
> tried the patch that Peter De Wachter suggested for docbook-xsl as
> well as changing the permissions for /dev/shm, to no avail.
> 
[...]
> 
> Frankly, I am very much convinced that xsltproc is broken. It's
> apparently happening quite often that xsltproc segfaults as the
> below reports on different architectures and operating systems
> show:
I agree. At the very least it should error out and exit gracefully.

Cheers,

Jelmer