[Xcb] Memory corruption with xbindkeys and xcb 1.7-2 (debian)

Oliver McFadden oliver.mcfadden at nokia.com
Tue Mar 8 01:19:38 PST 2011


On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 12:04 -0500, ext Peter Harris wrote:
> On 2011-03-07 11:28, Oliver McFadden wrote:
> > I am not sure whether this is a known issue, but anyway, I am seeing
> > xbindkeys crashing after a few button presses. Perhaps this should go to
> > the xbindkeys developers, but I'm reasonably sure this is a bug in xcb.
> 
> This looks a lot like a known (not xcb) issue:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32072
> 
> which references:
> 
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21924
> 
> which says it's fixed in xbindkeys 1.8.4. Debian is still on 1.8.3.

Yes, you're right. I just upgraded to xbindkeys from Git (1.8.4) and the
problem has disappeared.

Thanks Peter!
--
Oliver McFadden.



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