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groff package

groff crashed with signal 31 in kill()

Bug #1751745 reported by George Shuklin on 2018-02-26

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This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	groff (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

man for user under sudo is broken.

sudo -s
man ls

man: can't change directory to '/home/amarao': Permission denied
man: command exited with status 159: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8 | tbl | nroff -mandoc -rLL=274n -rLT=274n -Tutf8

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: groff-base 1.22.3-10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-10.11-generic 4.15.3
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Feb 26 11:53:54 2018
Dependencies:
gcc-8-base 8-20180208-0ubuntu1
libc6 2.26-0ubuntu2.1
libgcc1 1:8-20180208-0ubuntu1
libstdc++6 8-20180208-0ubuntu1
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
# This is a distribution channel descriptor
# For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
canonical-oem-somerville-xenial-amd64-20160624-2
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/groff
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-22 (249 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial" - Build amd64 LIVE Binary 20160624-10:47
ProcAttrCurrent: /usr/bin/man (enforce)
ProcCmdline: groff -mtty-char -Tutf8 -mandoc -rLL=274n -rLT=274n
Signal: 31
SourcePackage: groff
StacktraceTop:
kill () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
?? ()
?? ()
?? ()
__libc_start_main () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
Title: groff crashed with signal 31 in kill()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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George Shuklin (george-shuklin) wrote on 2018-02-26:

#1

Disassembly.txt Edit (848 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
JournalErrors.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (304 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Registers.txt Edit (687 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Stacktrace.txt Edit (474 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (497 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2018-02-26:

#2

StacktraceTop:
kill () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84
run_pipeline (ncommands=<optimized out>, commands=0x7ffc45de2bc0, no_pipe=<optimized out>) at ./debian/build/../../src/roff/groff/pipeline.c:529
run_commands (no_pipe=0) at ./debian/build/../../src/roff/groff/groff.cpp:579
main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at ./debian/build/../../src/roff/groff/groff.cpp:494

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2018-02-26: Stacktrace.txt

#3

Stacktrace.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2018-02-26: StacktraceSource.txt

#4

StacktraceSource.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote on 2018-02-26: ThreadStacktrace.txt

#5

ThreadStacktrace.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain)

Changed in groff (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Medium
tags:	removed: need-amd64-retrace

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-03-13:

#6

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in groff (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Joel (jocaez) wrote on 2018-04-04:

#7

When it happened to me I was trying to load a manpage on a root shell.
sudo -s

man lvcreate
man: can't change directory to '/home/user': Permission denied
man: command exited with status 159: /usr/lib/man-db/zsoelim | /usr/lib/man-db/manconv -f UTF-8:ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//IGNORE | preconv -e UTF-8 | tbl | nroff -mandoc -rLL=136n -rLT=136n -Tutf8

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