[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#584687: mc/fish segfaults when remote copy/move appends to existing file

[Sabine Engelhardt]

Package: mc
Version: 2:4.6.2~git20080311-4
Severity: normal


mc segfaults if I try to copy or move a file to a remote host where the same
filename already exists and 'append' is chosen. I tried this between three
installations of Lenny 5.0.4:

- Thinkpad T23 with standard kernel;
- PC with self-built kernel 2.6.29.1 (see below);
- virtual machine with amd64 and standard kernel.

The problem only appears when the source host is pushing the file to the
target host. It does not appear when the target hosts pulls the file from
the source.

Typical error message:

mc[2584]: segfault at 4f ip b74de38b sp bffffb558 error 4 in
libc-2.7.so[b7468000+155000]
Segmentation fault

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.1
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.16.6-3     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpm2                     1.20.4-3.1   General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii  libslang2                   2.1.3-3      The S-Lang programming library - r

mc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn  arj                      <none>          (no description available)
ii  bzip2                    1.0.5-1         high-quality block-sorting file co
pn  dbview                   <none>          (no description available)
ii  file                     4.26-1          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  lynx                     2.8.7dev9-2.1   Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona
ii  mime-support             3.44-1          MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
pn  odt2txt                  <none>          (no description available)
ii  perl                     5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  unzip                    5.52-12         De-archiver for .zip files
pn  xpdf                     <none>          (no description available)
ii  zip                      2.32-1          Archiver for .zip files

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