Re: Is this a bug?

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/19/20 4:55 PM, George R Goffe wrote:
> Chet,
> 
> I tried several times to create the problem. I think I succeeded. I did 
> install the "debuginfo" files I could find but it looks like libnss_sss.so's 
> debuginfo isn't built properly? It's supplied by sssd-client. I tried 
> installing sssd-client-debuginfo but it is already installed. I don't 
> remember doing that. Sigh... Somehow libnss_sss.so is referenced by bash? 
> That's what gdb thinks.

Yep, it needs it to get access to user and group data for things like tilde
expansion.

> Anyway, I tried causing the problem. ls -al zzz<tab-key> and then ctrl-c with 
> seemingly no response. I'll have to try running gdb in another konsole so I 
> can watch what happens when I <ctrl-c>... I'll do that now. Stand by. 

The trace you sent shows readline waiting in pselect for user input, so it
must be after the directory read was interrupted.

The only thing I can suggest is to defer the attach in gdb until bash
appears frozen. That may not work, but it's better than what you got.

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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/