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matmoul

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Registered: 2015-08-31

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[SOLVED] whiptail --menu is broken after last update.

Hi,

After last update whiptail --menu doesn't work anymore.

for testing :

whiptail --menu "Menu" 0 0 0 "Item 1" "" "Item 2" ""

return :

free(): invalid pointer
Abandon (core dumped)

After some investigations, it seem this is due to the last release of popt.
Downgrading popt solve the issue.

Does anyone have encountered issue with this ?

Last edited by matmoul (2022-11-23 16:51:33)

schard

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Re: [SOLVED] whiptail --menu is broken after last update.

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Strike that. It seems to be this issue:
https://github.com/rpm-software-managem … /issues/80
Remotely related: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=281172

Last edited by schard (2022-11-10 22:36:52)

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matmoul

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Re: [SOLVED] whiptail --menu is broken after last update.

@schard, thanks for the link

I opened an issue on the newt project which just closed it with a new release.
https://pagure.io/newt/issue/22
https://pagure.io/newt/commits/master

I've just build the new release that work with success.

Now waiting the new ArchLinux official package.

schard

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Re: [SOLVED] whiptail --menu is broken after last update.

I just flagged the package out of date to inform the maintainer of the new release that fixes this issue:
https://archlinux.org/packages/communit … 4/libnewt/

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matmoul

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Re: [SOLVED] whiptail --menu is broken after last update.

Thank you all
The libnewt package has been updated