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

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 02:46:19 PDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 11:42 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> 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.

That would be the one. Sorry for the confusion. Your patch looks good to
me.

Richard.



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