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qemu segfaults on PNG screendump

Host environment

  • Operating system: Guix System
  • OS/kernel version: GNU/Linux 5.19.8
  • Architecture: x86
  • QEMU flavor: qemu-system-x86_64
  • QEMU version: 7.1.0.
  • QEMU command line:
    ./qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1G -enable-kvm -hda guix-system.qcow2

Emulated/Virtualized environment

  • Operating system: Guix System
  • OS/kernel version: GNU/Linux 5.19.8
  • Architecture: x86

Description of problem

Attempting to produce a screendump via the monitor in the PNG format leads to a segmentation fault (but the screen dump is produced correctly).

Steps to reproduce

  1. Launch QEMU
  2. Go to the monitoring screen ()
  3. execute the command: screendump /tmp/dump.png -f png
  4. observe the crash (segfault)
Edited by Maxim Cournoyer
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