[Bug 18963] New: a bug in libgnomeui crashes gjiten when opening a dicfile

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Ubuntu | libgnomeui

           Summary: a bug in libgnomeui crashes gjiten when opening a
                    dicfile
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: libgnomeui
        AssignedTo: seb128 at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: alainbe at free.fr
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


Here is copied a mail exchange with the developper.
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Alain Bertrand <alainbe at xxx> wrote:


>> I have been a happy gjiten for years. Recently, I switched from plain
>> (sarge) debian to ubuntu (gjiten-2.3) and the app freezes each time I
>> try to add a new dictionnary (the dictionnary is already converted to
>> utf-8). I build the package for gjiten 2.4 and installed it but still
>> 
>> have the same behavior.
>> The error I get on the console is :
>> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7bdb580 ***
This is a gnome bug, the libgnomeui package needs to be fixed in ubuntu.
I just checked the ubuntu package, the bug is not reported nor fixed. 
It doesn't seem to be fixed yet in debian experimental either, so you could try
to downgrade to 2.10
You should report the bug.
otond Botyanszki <boti at xxx> wrote:


>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 22:09:04 +1100
>> Ross <rwillman at xxx> wrote:
>> 
>
>>> > #5  0xb72542ca in free () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
>>> > #6  0xb734a054 in g_free () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
>>> > #7  0xb7ee1550 in gnome_file_entry_get_type ()
>>> > from /usr/lib/libgnomeui-2.so.0 #8  0xb73f3ab3 in
>
>> 
>> It looks to me that this invalid free is inside libgnomeui, unless
>> there is memory corruption caused by gjiten somewhere else (but this
>> is unlikely). I only have libgnomeui 2.10, 2.12 is only in debian
>> experimental yet.
>> 
>> Checked the diff between gnome-file-entry.c in 2.10 and 2.12. Not
>> much difference, but there was a g_free() added and I suspect this
>> might be causing the segfault.
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Regards,

Alain

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