GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 96118
gnome-window-properties crashes on startup
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
using control-center-2.1.0.1 gnome-window-proporties segfaults upon startup, see attached backtrace: [aldug@edison src]$ gdb GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.2.1-4) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux". (gdb) quit [aldug@edison src]$ gdb gnome-window-properties GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (5.2.1-4) Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"... (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/local/gnome2/bin/gnome-window-properties [New Thread 8192 (LWP 16747)] (process:16747): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: [Invalid UTF-8] gobject.c:749:g_object_new_valist(): object class `GnomeProgram' has no property named got a list of 1 wms Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
+ Trace 28991
Thread 8192 (LWP 16747)
Aldug: "if (strcmp (theme_name, current_theme_name) == 0)" in setup_appearance_option_men() is the one which dumps. Guess it dumps when the 'theme_name' passed to it isn't NULL terminated. Now lot of code changes have gone into windows capplet and the above code part is been completely replaced. So pls. let me know if you are still seeing the problem. Thnx.
Appears to now be fixed, I'm closing the bug.
*** Bug 97165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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