Re: [Bug-tar] GNU tar 1.24+ segfaults on Solaris 10U9 x86

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

[+dam]

No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 00:05, Eric Blake <address@hidden> escreveu:
> On 11/15/2010 07:22 AM, Sebastian Kayser wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are packaging GNU tar for Solaris and since tar 1.24 we've been
>> seeing segfaults when extracting archives (testing and creating archives
>> works fine). It doesn't seem to be specific to a single archive. Even an
>> archive created with GNU tar itself causes a segfault. It seems to be
>> specific to
>>
>> * the architecture:    x86   (SPARC is fine)
>> * the tar version:     1.24+ (pre 1.24 is fine)
>> * the Solaris release: 10U9  (pre 10U9 is fine)
>
>> $ gtar xfvz hello-0.1.0.tar.gz
>> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
>>
>> Any idea what's going wrong?
>
> Very likely the same latent bug that bit coreutils when trying to set
> any file timestamps, and exposed only if you mix too-old gnulib with the
> very latest Solaris kernel patches:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-11/msg00035.html
>
> Have you tried tar 1.25, or tar.git with the latest gnulib.git?

We've tried 1.25, but not the git sources.  Dago, what do you think
about granting tar developers access to our buildfarm?