dbus crashing with no environment

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 04:04:51PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 15:59 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:18:40PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > Heya,
> > > 
> > > I was trying to see why fprintd was crashing when using the service
> > > activation, and Richard mentioned that I should try clearing the
> > > environment as that's what the activation helper does.
> > > 
> > > I don't actually need any environment in fprintd, so went ahead with it,
> > > and ended up with crashes in dbus itself. fprintd uses dbus-glib, but I
> > > was able to reproduce with the attached DBus-only test case.
> > 
> > This does not appear to be neccessarily dbus's  fault - change your
> > demo program to just be 
> > 
> >   #include <stdlib.h>
> > 
> >   int main (int argc, char **argv)
> >   {
> >         clearenv ();
> >         unsetenv("FOO");
> >         return 0;
> >   }
> > 
> > 
> > And it'll also crash & burn the same way:
> 
> Duh. My mistake for not going deeper into it. Would you mind filing a
> bug against glibc, or shall I do it?

I'll let you :-)

Daniel
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