[PATCH] fix for segmentation fault if a non-existing addon called

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Wed Oct 19 02:42:55 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 19 October 2005 11:19, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:20 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is a patch to fix possible segmentation fault if a non-existing
> > addon (from device key info.addons) is called. To reproduce the problem
> > remove/rename e.g. hald-addon-acpi and restart hald.
>
> I've fallen foul of this too, but I thought DavidZ patched the problem a
> few weeks ago (maybe just the method script, I could be wrong..)? The
> patch looks sane tho.

Not sure which patch you mean, but I posted a patch from Kay Sievers to fix 
selfterminating of HAL if a callout (from key info.callouts.*) fails.

Cheers,

Danny


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