bash 2.04

[john . lonergan]

Operating system Solaris 2.6
Bash 2.04

When I type tilde followed by tab this core dumps bash.

When I dbx bash the coredump occurs during a call to getpwent while
examining the users in the netgoups for the current box.

DBX TRACE FOLLOWS


(dbx) run
Running: bash
(process id 20991)
lonergjj@ln4d556uss:4:.:~/bash/bash-2.04 $ ~Reading symbolic information
for nss_compat.so.1
Reading symbolic information for nss_nis.so.1
signal BUS (invalid address alignment) in getnetgr_end at 0xef652c68
0xef652c68: getnetgr_end+0x0018: ld      [%i2], %o0
Current function is username_completion_function
 1449     while (entry = getpwent ())
(dbx) where
  [1] getnetgr_end(0x1e3b90, 0xcfcfcfcf, 0xcfcfcfcf, 0x0, 0x18, 0x0), at
0xef652c68
  [2] getnetgr_destr(0x1e3b90, 0x0, 0xef652cd4, 0x0, 0x1e77b5,
0x1e77a0), at 0xef652ce8
  [3] netgr_end(0x1e3090, 0xefffc064, 0x1, 0x20b, 0x1f0020, 0x2), at
0xef7219a8
  [4] _nss_compat_getent(0x1e3090, 0xefffc190, 0x1e30b8, 0xef7ed2b8,
0x0, 0x10), at 0xef72222c
  [5] nss_getent_u(0xef627240, 0xef604fdc, 0xef627260, 0xefffc190,
0x1d6018, 0x1e6850), at 0xef5d52e4
  [6] nss_getent(0xef627240, 0xef604fdc, 0xef627260, 0xefffc190,
0xef627268, 0x1e77a0), at 0xef5d4e88
  [7] _getpwent_r(0x1bd01c, 0x1bd040, 0x400, 0x1bd01c, 0xef622eb4,
0xef605694), at 0xef605534
=>[8] username_completion_function(text = 0x1e67d0 "~", state = 23),
line 1449 in "complete.c"
  [9] completion_matches(text = 0x1e67d0 "~", entry_function = 0xe2c18 =
&username_completion_function(char *text, int state)), line 1398 in
"complete.c"
  [10] attempt_shell_completion(text = 0x1e67d0 "~", start = 0, end =
1), line 890 in "bashline.c"
  [11] gen_completion_matches(text = 0x1e67d0 "~", start = 0, end = 1,
our_func = 0xe2fc8 = &filename_completion_function(char *text, int
state), found_quote = 0, quote_char = 0), line 684 in "complete.c"
  [12] rl_complete_internal(what_to_do = 9), line 1264 in "complete.c"
  [13] rl_complete(ignore = 1, invoking_key = 9), line 284 in
"complete.c"
  [14] _rl_dispatch(key = 9, map = 0x1951d0), line 533 in "readline.c"
  [15] readline_internal_char(), line 406 in "readline.c"
  [16] readline_internal_charloop(), line 452 in "readline.c"
  [17] readline_internal(), line 466 in "readline.c"
  [18] readline(prompt = 0x1e1890
"lonergjj@ln4d556uss:4:.:~/bash/bash-2.04 $ "), line 272 in "readline.c"

  [19] yy_readline_get(), line 979 in "parse.y"
  [20] yy_getc(), line 916 in "parse.y"
  [21] shell_getc(remove_quoted_newline = 1), line 1607 in "parse.y"
  [22] read_token(command = 0), line 2178 in "parse.y"
  [23] yylex(), line 1856 in "parse.y"
  [24] yyparse(), line 387 in "bison.simple"
  [25] parse_command(), line 213 in "eval.c"
  [26] read_command(), line 257 in "eval.c"
  [27] reader_loop(), line 124 in "eval.c"
  [28] main(argc = 1, argv = 0xefffd3d4, env = 0xefffd3dc), line 628 in
"shell.c"
(dbx)



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