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From: Frank Masolijn <kalizec@stack.nl>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: /stand/sysinstall coredumps when trying to load package data.
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>Number:         37160
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sysinstall(8): coredumps when trying to load package data.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    brucec
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 16 15:10:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    Sun Apr 25 12:44:38 UTC 2010
>Last-Modified:  Sun Apr 25 12:44:38 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Frank Masolijn
>Release:        4.X-Release (Confirmed on 4.3,4.4 and 4.5)
>Organization:
>Environment:
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>Description:
A couple of friends of mine and I stumbled into a bug in sysinstall.
The problem is that it's coredumps when trying to read a package index from a ftp server.

We tried this on 5 Different machines. Using 4.3-release, 4.4-release and 4.5-release. We used different self-specified ftp-urls and such, but it didn't help.

If more questions arise, please feel free to contact me at the above adres.
>How-To-Repeat:
/stand/sysinstall
Options->Release Name 4.5-RELEASE->Q
Configure->Packages->FTP->URL->ftp.surfnet.nl/pub
Assume Network configured -> YES
Now wait for it to start loading the index.
It'll coredump.
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: johan 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Jun 15 15:50:19 PDT 2002 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer group. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37160 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback  
State-Changed-By: brucec 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 25 12:28:52 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
I think this is caused by the INDEX being corrupted. 
I've tried to replicate the issue on both 4.2 and 4.5 but  
sysinstall works. Do you still see the problem on newer versions  
of FreeBSD? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->brucec 
Responsible-Changed-By: brucec 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Apr 25 12:28:52 UTC 2010 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Take. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37160 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed  
State-Changed-By: brucec 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 25 12:43:41 UTC 2010 
State-Changed-Why:  
Mail to submitter bounced. Unable to replicate on 4.2 or 4.5 using  
ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386 . 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37160 
>Unformatted:
