polkit 0.94

[Daniel Nicoletti]

Hey Michael, nice to know,
I'll use glibc10 (from experimental),
and I'll see what happens :D,
If this solves the problem I think
checking for it in configure would be
good.

Thanks,
Daniel.



----- Mensagem original ----
> De: Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>
> Para: David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk>
> Cc: Daniel Nicoletti <dantti85-pk at yahoo.com.br>; polkit-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Enviadas: Terça-feira, 25 de Agosto de 2009 10:48:22
> Assunto: Re: polkit 0.94
> 
> 2009/8/12 David Zeuthen :
> > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:10 -0700, Daniel Nicoletti wrote:
> >> As I said, my distro didn't package it yet.
> >>
> >> So I have to compile it myself,
> >> my version of DBus is the same of people that
> >> have it working.
> >> (1.2.16-2  which is new enough).
> >> Also you could try to help me fix it instead of
> >> telling me to use a package. I use Debian,
> >> Dario uses Gentoo, do you really think these two
> >> distros have broken packages?
> >
> > No, that is not what I said. People I know that use Debian and Ubuntu
> > don't have these problems. And I generally have pretty high faith in
> > these distros - that's why I tell people to use distro packages.
> >
> >> We share the same
> >> problems.
> >> Really tell me what can I do with gdb so I can help
> >> this issue to be solved...
> >
> > OK, no need to spam the list with this. Please file a bug here
> >
> >  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PolicyKit
> 
> Hi David, hi Daniel,
> 
> I can confirm this problem and could trace it down to an issue in
> glibc (Debian currently has 2.9).
> 
> The code is in stdlibc/stdlib.c
> 
> ep = __environ;
>   while (*ep != NULL)
> ..
> and ep being NULL. in this case, leading to the segfault.
> 
> The same code in glibc 2.10 is
>   ep = __environ;
>   if (ep != NULL)
>     while (*ep != NULL)
> 
> 
> So it seems to be an issue with 2.9 and Ubuntu (karmic has 2.10, dunno
> about Fedora) is not affected by this.
> 
> I assume, the bug reports from the Gentoo users are with glibc < 2.10 also
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
> 
> -- 
> Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the
> universe are pointed away from Earth?



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