[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#420547: aideinit segfaults on sparc

[Marc Haber]

clone #420547 -1
retitle -1 issues with whirlpool hash on sparc64
reassign -1 mhash
block #420547 with -1
thanks

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:26:03AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> # aideinit 
> Overwrite existing /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new [Yn]? 
> Running aide --init...
> Caught SIGBUS/SEGV. Exiting
> /usr/bin/aide.wrapper: line 24:  7196 Aborted                 /usr/bin/aide $CONFIG "$@"
> Overwrite /var/lib/aide/aide.db [yN]? 

We have tracked this down to an issue with the whirlpool hash on
sparc64, which can be worked around by disabling the whirlpool hash in
aide configuration.

This might be a known mhash upstream bug (#1721000,
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1721000&group_id=4286&atid=104286)
which should be addressed in Debian as well.

Greetings
Marc

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