GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 360907
gdm segfaults on ia64 with in ve_locale_from_utf8: address out of bounds
Last modified: 2007-02-09 17:47:13 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/62356 "Binary package hint: gdm I'll attach a backtrace ... http://librarian.launchpad.net/4440729/gdb-gdmgreeter.txt backtrace ... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x2000000000fc63f0 in g_utf8_validate () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (gdb) backtrace
+ Trace 75429
Could you let me know what string is being passed into g_locale_from_utf8 as argument 1? Perhaps there is something weird about that string? You may need to rebuild with -g and attach a debugger to the process that is crashing. I'm a bit suspicious that this is failing in g_locale_from_utf8. This may be more likely a problem with glib and not GDM unless we are passing some weird data into the function. If we are passing in weird data, it would be useful if you could help identify where the string is coming from. Also, perhaps Ray Strode could help look into this. I notice it is failing in the g_io code that he recently changed. I'll cc: him.
comment from the submitter: "We've gotten rid of of these Itanium1 machines, so I can't try anything out with them. They were more trouble than they were worth." Closing the bug for now, I'll reopen if he can the required informations about that