[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#587271: Bug#587271: Bug#587271: libxml2 zegfault reading any xml file on amd64

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 02:35:23AM +0100, Ian Beckwith wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:42:15AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Could either of you get a full backtrace (bt full under gdb) from such
> > a crash?
> 
> I got a backtrace from gedit (stable/i386), but as I was about to post
> it realised it didn't have debug info for libxml2, probably because he
> still had the version of libxml2-dbg corresponding to libxml2 with
> Marc's patch applied. Attached anyway, just in case its useful, as
> gedit-useless-backtrace.
> 
> By then he had reinstalled stable/amd64, and the bug was apparently
> not appearing. He's now noticed that although gdm and gnome-panel
> work, gnome-terminal crashes on Edit/Current Profile and iceweasel
> crashes going to any site with flash (he doesn't have flash installed)
> 
> gnome-terminal is crashing reading
> /usr/share/gnome-terminal/glade/gnome-terminal.glade2, and iceweasel
> is crashing reading /usr/share/mime/application/x-shockwave-flash.xml,
> both in __xmlParserInputBufferCreateFilename(), so I assume this is
> the same bug. 'bt full' output for both is attached, let me know if
> you need any more info.

What does ldd /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 have to say to you? You're hitting a
bug that shouldn't appear with the version of zlib in lenny.
Do you have a more recent one somewhere else that would be picked?

Mike