Current Debian unstable ModemManager package crashes on startup, probing EM7455

[Bjørn Mork]

Aleksander Morgado <aleksandermj at chromium.org> writes:

>> (ModemManager:223904): GLib-CRITICAL **: 09:22:43.830: g_regex_match_full: assertion 'regex != NULL' failed
>> corrupted double-linked list
>>
>
> The issue is triggered by the pcre1->pcre2 upgrade in glib 2.73.2, see:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager/-/issues/621
>
> The actual error is a bug in a ModemManager regex expression that
> wasn´t caught by pcre1 but is caught by pcre2:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mobile-broadband/ModemManager/-/commit/79a5a4eed2189ea87d25cbe00bc824a2572cad66
>
> This one, along with some other related fixes in tests also failing
> with the newer glib, have been backported to the 1.18 branch.
> I'll try to provide a new 1.18.12 release in the coming days.

Thanks!  Then I'll just wait for a new release.  Suits me well :-)


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