Bug#544682: vim: segfault on reading gzipped file

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Sat Nov 7 23:01:10 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:15:51PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> James Vega wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 07:00:37PM +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> >> James Vega wrote:
> >>> This worked fine for me when using
> >>> /usr/share/doc/vim-common/changelog.Debian.gz as the test file.
> >> Yes, this worked for me for many months, for many other compressed files. This
> >> is the first time I saw segfault.
> > 
> > Is it still reproducible for you?  I've tried to reproduce it and
> > haven't had any luck.  I get messages about not being able to create the
> > tempfile and then I'm presented with the uncompressed file, but no
> > crash.
> Yes. Here's how I reproduce it:
> 
> -8<-
> /media/net$ mount | grep smbnetfs
> smbnetfs on /media/net type fuse.smbnetfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other)
> /media/net$ vim /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/changelog.gz
> Vim: Caught deadly signal SEGV
> 
> Vim: Finished.
> <many empty lines>
> Segmentation fault
> ->8-

Hmm, a fuse filesystem.  That may be the important bit of information.
Could you attach a gzipped log of “strace -f -o 544682.log vim
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/changelog.gz”?

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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