[BusyBox] SegFault into 'make menuconfig'

[Steven Scholz]

Glenn McGrath wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 16:46:09 +0200 (EET)
> Nick Fedchik <fnm at fusion.ukrsat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi ALL!
> >
> > make menuconfig on busybox 0.61pre (daily from cvs).
> > Interest situation - when I entering File Utilities section,
> > just moving cursor down to the end to
> > [*]   Support for human readable output (example 13k, 23M, 235G)
> > then moving cursor up to
> > [*] rm
> > and again up to [*] mv
> >
> 
> Yea, i get that segfaults as well, i thought it was something specific to
> me, ive been wondering about it for a while, taking another look now i see
> a pattern.
I see the same.


> See if you can duplicate this.
> 
> 1)
> In the main menu scroll down (with down arrow, not pagedown) to the 4th
> line from the bottom, "Debugging Options" (no further), and then press up
> arrow 8 times untill you are at "Module Utilities".
> 
> The top line say "---" (3rd line from the bottom), which is not what
> it should be.
> 
> If you scroll up once the top line changes to "Linux System Utilities",
> which is the 5th line from the bottom (and again incorrect).
YES.

> 2)
> In the main menu scroll down (with down arrow, not pagedown) to the 3rd
> line from the bottom, "---" seperator (no further), and then press up
> arrow 8 times until you are at "Network Utilities".
> 
> The top line say "Save Configuration to an Alternate File" (very bottom
> line), which again is incorrect.
YES.

> If you scroll up once, the top line will change to "---", which is the 3rd
> line from the bottom, and again incorrect.
YES.
 
> 3)
> In the main menu scroll down (with down arrow, not pagedown) to the 2nd
> line from the bottom, "Load an Alternate Configuration File" (no further),
> and then press up arrow 8 times until you are at "Another Bourne-like
> Shell".
NO.
If I do this I get a segmentaion fault.
(Why should there be a "Another Bourne-like Shell" in the main menu???)

> I dont see how this could be anything but a bug in kbuild, but then why
> isnt everyone else seeing it ?
Well I do. :o)

Cheers, 

Steven