Bug 422969 – network-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in migrate_old_parameters()

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Bug 422969 - network-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in migrate_old_parameters()


Summary:	network-admin crashed with SIGSEGV in migrate_old_parameters()


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	gnome-system-tools
Classification:	Deprecated
Component:	network-admin
Version:	2.18.x
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Carlos Garnacho
QA Contact:	Carlos Garnacho

URL:
Whiteboard:

Duplicates:	409975 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2007-03-26 12:05 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified:	2007-04-09 00:52 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.17/2.18

Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-03-26 12:05:48 UTC

The bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/bugs/95993

"Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools

I started the network-admin while being disconnected from LAN and WLAN...

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
CrashCounter: 1
Date: Sun Mar 25 15:56:33 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/network-admin
Package: gnome-system-tools 2.18.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: network-admin
...
.

+ Trace 122335

Thread 1 (process 6532)

#0 migrate_old_parameters
at network-locations.c line 483
#1 compare_interfaces_list
at network-locations.c line 499
#2 gst_network_locations_get_current
at network-locations.c line 565
#3 select_matching_profile
at locations-combo.c line 304
#4 gst_locations_combo_constructor
at locations-combo.c line 505
#5 IA__g_object_newv
at gobject.c line 937
#6 IA__g_object_new_valist
at gobject.c line 1022
#7 IA__g_object_new
at gobject.c line 795
#8 gst_locations_combo_new
at locations-combo.c line 547
#9 gst_network_tool_constructor
at network-tool.c line 206
#10 IA__g_object_newv
at gobject.c line 937
#11 IA__g_object_new_valist
at gobject.c line 1022
#12 IA__g_object_new
at gobject.c line 795
#13 gst_network_tool_new
at network-tool.c line 356
#14 main
at main.c line 167

Comment 1 Carlos Garnacho 2007-04-08 22:34:18 UTC

I've just added some code to make a sanity check on the gotten values, this should at least avoid the crash, I still wonder how did the guy end with weird values in the location file.

Comment 2 Carlos Garnacho 2007-04-09 00:52:30 UTC

*** Bug 409975 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***