https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304#c Marcus Meissner changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |meissner@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |werner@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304#c2 --- Comment #2 from Dr. Werner Fink 2013-11-07 09:07:29 UTC --- Just tried /suse/werner> biber Usage: biber [options] file[.bcf] biber [options] --tool <datasource> Creates "file.bbl" using control file "file.bcf" (".bcf" extension is optional). Normaly use with biblatex requires no options as they are all set in biblatex and passed via the ".bcf" file In "tool" mode (see B<--tool> option), takes a datasource (defaults to "bibtex" datasource) and outputs a copy of the datasource with any datasource mappings/reencodings applied. Please run "biber --help" for option details .. please give http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Publishing:/TeXLive/openSUSE_13.1/ a try. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304#c4 Dr. Werner Fink changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |NEW CC| |werner@suse.com AssignedTo|werner@suse.com |mls@suse.com --- Comment #4 from Dr. Werner Fink 2013-11-07 10:31:50 UTC --- The crash is in perl its self: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. S_pad_findlex (my_perl=my_perl@entry=0x60f010, namepv=namepv@entry=0x7fffffff7ab0 "&CORE", namelen=5, flags=flags@entry=0, cv=0x0, seq=19340, warn=warn@entry=1, out_capture=out_capture@entry=0x0, out_name_sv=out_name_sv@entry=0x7fffffff78b8, out_flags=out_flags@entry=0x7fffffff78b4) at pad.c:1144 1144 pad.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 S_pad_findlex (my_perl=my_perl@entry=0x60f010, namepv=namepv@entry=0x7fffffff7ab0 "&CORE", namelen=5, flags=flags@entry=0, cv=0x0, seq=19340, warn=warn@entry=1, out_capture=out_capture@entry=0x0, out_name_sv=out_name_sv@entry=0x7fffffff78b8, out_flags=out_flags@entry=0x7fffffff78b4) at pad.c:1144 #1 0x00007ffff7ac73bd in Perl_pad_findmy_pvn (my_perl=my_perl@entry=0x60f010, namepv=namepv@entry=0x7fffffff7ab0 "&CORE", namelen=namelen@entry=5, flags=0) at pad.c:965 #2 0x00007ffff7ab3a5d in Perl_yylex (my_perl=my_perl@entry=0x60f010) at toke.c:6915 #3 0x00007ffff7ac2868 in Perl_yyparse (my_perl=my_perl@entry=0x60f010, gramtype=gramtype@entry=258) at perly.c:341 #4 0x00007ffff7a9e142 in S_parse_body (xsinit=0x404460, env=0x0, my_perl=<optimized out>) at perl.c:2309 #5 perl_parse (my_perl=<optimized out>, xsinit=0x404460, argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, env=0x0) at perl.c:1626 #6 0x000000000040244c in main () (gdb) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304#c6 --- Comment #6 from Dr. Werner Fink 2013-11-07 10:58:49 UTC --- .. with 5.18.0 it had worked after some rework of biber, see changelog of texlive binaries: Mon Sep 2 09:31:02 UTC 2013 - werner@suse.de - Add patch biber-av.patch form upstream to avoid Data::Diver perl module and use autovivification now crash does happen with the update to perl-5.18.1, from changelog of perl Tue Sep 3 15:30:23 CEST 2013 - mls@suse.de - update to perl-5.18.1 * B has been upgraded from 1.42 to 1.42_01 * Digest::SHA has been upgraded from 5.84 to 5.84_01 * Module::CoreList has been upgraded from 2.89 to 2.96 * A number of memory leaks in regexp have been plugged * The debugger's man command been fixed * @_ is now correctly visible in the debugger * Lexical constants no longer crash when inlined * Deep recursion warnings no longer crash lexical subroutines - backport backref fix from upstream - fix INC containing directories multiple tim -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304#c8 --- Comment #8 from Dr. Werner Fink 2013-11-14 11:11:34 UTC --- In the meanwhile I've a TeXLive version at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/Publishing:TeXLive which does now use plain perl, that is no more PAR archive binary with 27 perl packages included but 28 perl packages + new perl-biber package and a small texlive-biber-bin package ... same size ;) linux /suse/werner> file /usr/bin/biber /usr/bin/biber: Perl script, UTF-8 Unicode text executable linux /suse/werner> biber Usage: biber [options] file[.bcf] biber [options] --tool <datasource> Creates "file.bbl" using control file "file.bcf" (".bcf" extension is optional). Normaly use with biblatex requires no options as they are all set in biblatex and passed via the ".bcf" file In "tool" mode (see B<--tool> option), takes a datasource (defaults to "bibtex" datasource) and outputs a copy of the datasource with any datasou rce mappings/reencodings applied. Please run "biber --help" for option details -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304#c9 Matthias Bach changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |marix@marix.org --- Comment #9 from Matthias Bach 2014-02-08 13:51:57 UTC --- This is still affecting 13.1 final. Would it be possible to ship an update? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304#c10 F. S. changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |frederic.santos@u-bordeaux1 | |.fr --- Comment #10 from F. S. 2014-02-21 13:02:45 UTC --- Same problem here... and same demand as Matthias. :) It would be great. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849304#c12 --- Comment #12 from Clarence Dillon 2014-02-27 01:54:02 UTC --- (In reply to comment #11) Scratch that. I didn't realize that I also needed to upgrade the texlive-biber and texlive-biber-bin. After upgrading both of those, I seem to have a working biber again. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.