Dear Maintainer,

GNU Info is not running on my system. It crashes at startup with "Aborted" message.
It only runs in rare cases ("info man" works, "info" crashes, "info octave" crashes...).
Terminal emulator session is damaged after crash -- I need to run "reset".

Thanks,
Hudson


Reading symbols from info...
(No debugging symbols found in info)
[New LWP 23416]
Core was generated by `info octave'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
#0  __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:49
49	../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: Arquivo ou diretório inexistente.
(gdb) bt
#0  __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:49
#1  0x00007fc5442ba546 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:79
#2  0x000055fbe9d1e137 in ?? ()
#3  0x000055fbe9d2e50d in ?? ()
#4  0x000055fbe9d11e01 in ?? ()
#5  0x00007fc5442bb7fd in __libc_start_main (main=0x55fbe9d10880, argc=2, argv=0x7ffecbd8abd8, init=<optimized out>,
    fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffecbd8abc8) at ../csu/libc-start.c:332
#6  0x000055fbe9d123fa in ?? ()

Am 20.06.2022 um 18:28 teilte y mit:

Hi,
Please try to get more debug symbols using one of the methods described
on [1].
I suspect one (or more) of the info files installed on your system
is/are broken. Could you send the output of "ls -l /usr/share/info/*"?
Did you recently installed packages, which bring in info pages?

Hilmar

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace

On 21.06.22 hudson@hudsonlacerda.com (hudson@hudsonlacerda.com) wrote:

Hi Hudson,
Many thanks for the observation!  Fortunately this is a known issue
in upstream [1].  I've put new packages here [2], please be so kind
to test them.  Thanks!

Hilmar

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=04f7ed5ce647050f28106b589217fb2509626d38
[2] https://freeshell.de/~hille42/1013283/

Am 21.06.2022 um 15:19 teilte hudson@hudsonlacerda.com mit:

Hi,
Sorry, I don't understand.

1. Does fixing the typo solved the issue?
2. Did you update the info package to solve the issue?
3. Were both actions needed?

I've seen the typo but I don't see a relationship to the crash. I
understand, that the typo could be solved, but a typo in the translation
file should not lead to a program crash.

Hilmar

Hi Hilmar,

----- Em 21 de Jun de 2022, em 11:40, Hilmar Preuße hille42@web.de escreveu:

"bug: no command <get-inffo-help-node>" is the message the new[1] info package generates.
[1] ( https://freeshell.de/~hille42/1013283/ )

It is consistent with previous gdb backtracing:

Reading symbols from info...
[New LWP 75227]
Core was generated by `info info'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
#0  __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:49
49      ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: Arquivo ou diretório inexistente.
(gdb) bt
#0  __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:49
#1  0x00007fbc02d12546 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:79
#2  0x000055eefe344862 in replace_in_documentation (
    string=0x7fbc02f27174 "Bem vindo à versão Info %s. Digite \\[get-help-window] p/ ajuda,\\[get-inffo-help-node] p/ tut$
#3  0x000055eefe34dad7 in display_startup_message () at ./info/session.c:187
#4  0x000055eefe34db23 in info_session (ref_list=0x55ef000105e0, user_filename=0x0, error=0x0) at ./info/session.c:208
#5  0x000055eefe342eee in main (argc=0, argv=0x7fffdaefa2b8) at ./info/info.c:1079
(gdb)

I do not know which file the typo cames from,
but I think fixing the translation typo would fix the issue — only until the next typo.
"bug: no command <get-inffo-help-node>"

I did not test a fixed translation, but I presume yes, both are needed.

Maybe it was explicitly coded to abort() [2] ?

               if (!command)
-                abort ();

[2] ( https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/commit/?id=04f7ed5ce647050f28106b589217fb2509626d38 )


Best regards,
Hudson

Am 21.06.2022 um 17:27 teilte hudson@hudsonlacerda.com mit:

Hi Hudson,
OK.
It is here:

hille@sid-amd64:~$ strings
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo|grep inffo
o Info %s. Digite \[get-help-window] p/ ajuda,\[get-inffo-help-node] p/
tutorial.

However this is a binary file, it is generated from the pt_BR.po, which
is located in the source tree of texinfo.

I admit that the typo needs to be fixed, but I'd not expect that a
program crashed b/c of a typo in a translation file. We should address
this primarily.
As the patch solves the crash issue I'll upload a new texinfo package
containing the patch and close this bug then.

The translation file can be found here [1], the contact information is
in the header of the file. Feel free to contribute here.

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/po/pt_BR.po
Seems to be correct...and was now replaced by a more clean info_error
message.

I'll try to upload the fixed version ASAP.

Hilmar

----- Em 21 de Jun de 2022, em 16:26, Hilmar Preuße hille42@web.de escreveu:

[...]
[...]

Since it is aborted without a hint about the cause, and without clean up,
the bug affects other programs that use GNU Info, like GNU Octave ("doc" command),
or the terminal emulator.

[...]

Thanks. I have sent them a report.

Fine.

Many thanks!

Hudson

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
texinfo, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1013283@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> (supplier of updated texinfo package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 23:04:39 +0200
Source: texinfo
Architecture: source
Version: 6.8-6
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian TeX Task Force <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>
Closes: 1013283
Changes:
 texinfo (6.8-6) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Stop mentioning texinfo-doc-nonfree in README.Debian.
   * "Fix "info" crashes with "aborted" message, in any attempt to run
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