Bug 22485

Summary:	seg fault when running kernel make menuconfig as normal user, but not as root
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	steve brueggeman <xioborg>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, ouaurelien, xioborg
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	ncurses	CVE:
Status comment:

Description steve brueggeman 2018-01-29 06:23:49 CET

Description of problem:
crash when configuring kernel make menu-config as non-root user

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-6

How reproducible:
VERY.. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. I have user that belongs to group I created as 'devel'.  change ownerships recursively on /usr/src/linux-* to root.devel., change recursively permissions to 770 to /usr/src/linux-*  untar source from www.kernel.org  do make enuconfig as user with group devel, get crash, segfault.
2.  works OK if I am root... have not done enough investigation to determine why  works as root, but not user yet.
3.

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2018-01-29 14:23:18 CET

No idea whether this is a bug in our make or not. Our make & kernel maintainer will know, assigning to him.

CC: (none) => marja11
Source RPM: (none) => make??
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 2 steve brueggeman 2018-02-03 04:51:03 CET

I removed recent updates for ncurses by forcing an install from the mageia6 CD, and problem goes away.. so looks like related to recent ncurses updates.

steve brueggeman 2018-02-03 04:57:42 CET

Source RPM: make?? => ncurses

steve brueggeman 2018-02-03 04:58:20 CET

CC: (none) => xioborg

Comment 3 steve brueggeman 2018-02-03 06:19:28 CET

crap, I was hoping to reproduce with debuginfo and a core dump, but after compiling from SRPM.. I am unable to reproduce with latest ncurses SRPMS..  pls do not think I'm crazy... install into a VirtualBox from dvd, then update all, then try to compile from a kernel.org kernel source  problem disappears if downgrading ncurses...

Comment 4 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 16:01:26 CEST

Mageia 6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-09-30. It is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan 
to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to 
a later Mageia version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we 
weren't able to fix it before Mageia 6's end of life. If you are able to 
reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click 
on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
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Best regards,
Aurélien
Bugsquad Team

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => ouaurelien
Resolution: (none) => OLD