[Spice-devel] [spice-xpi] Workaround firefox-gtk3 bug

Victor Toso victortoso at redhat.com
Thu Jun 4 02:14:03 PDT 2015


Hey,

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:36:09PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Ping ?

I would only add a FIXME in the comment to easily find it and check
if it is already fixed;

-toso

>
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 01:37:24PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > When it's built with gtk3, firefox plugin-container will use some
> > LD_PRELOAD hack in order to be able to load the gtk2 flash plugin.
> > However, this LD_PRELOAD'ed .so will cause gtk3 remote-viewer to crash
> > when it's started by spice-xpi
> > 
> > This commit just cleans up the unwanted LD_PRELOAD variable from the
> > environment before starting remote-viewer.
> > ---
> >  SpiceXPI/src/plugin/controller.cpp | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/SpiceXPI/src/plugin/controller.cpp b/SpiceXPI/src/plugin/controller.cpp
> > index f8cd39d..63a669d 100644
> > --- a/SpiceXPI/src/plugin/controller.cpp
> > +++ b/SpiceXPI/src/plugin/controller.cpp
> > @@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ gpointer SpiceController::ClientThread(gpointer data)
> >      else
> >          env = g_environ_setenv(env, "SPICE_PROXY", fake_this->m_proxy.c_str(), TRUE);
> >  
> > +    // Work around bug in firefox gtk3 builds, see
> > +    // https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217076
> > +    // http://emilio.pozuelo.org/posts/75
> > +    //
> > +    // This LD_PRELOAD'ed library causes gtk3 applications to crash
> > +    env = g_environ_unsetenv(env, "LD_PRELOAD");
> > +
> >      // Try to spawn main client
> >      client_argv = fake_this->GetClientPath();
> >      if (client_argv != NULL) {
> > -- 
> > 2.4.1
> > 
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