[tex-live] Pretest: perl coredumps

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Sat May 7 00:46:21 CEST 2016


Hi Nikola, hi Karl,

On Fri, 06 May 2016, Karl Berry wrote:
> testing, we (he) discovered the crash happens even after a simple
> "Update all installed" when pointing to a pretest repo.  Thus, GUI mode

Very strange. 

Do you think this is reproducible in a virtual machine running
your vrsion of freebsd?

Another thing that comes to my mind is that you add printf statements
throught the code to find the place where it happens. I would do that ;-)

> is that this did not happen in our previous releases.  Can you guess at
> what might have changed to trigger the bug?  The GUI printing of the
> "(verified)" somehow?

Not the slightest idea, but the (verified) is probably not the case.

Norbert

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