Bug#322070: gksu: sigsegv at startup with -u root option

[kenoby]

On Tuesday 09 August 2005 17:00, you wrote:
> Em Ter, 2005-08-09 às 01:00 +0200, Christian Heldt escreveu:
> > when starting synaptic via
> > gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic
> > it just sigsegv
>
> Hello,
>
> I cannot reproduce this here. Could you please produce a backtrace for
> me?
>
> http://wiki.debian.net/?HowToGetABacktrace
>
> It would be useful if you could build both gksu and libgksu1.2 with no
> strip for the backtrace.
>
> Thanks,
ok. recompiled as descriped in wiki. i hope it will help. never done this 
before

(gdb) run -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic
Starting program: /usr/bin/gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1217714496 (LWP 5659)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1217714496 (LWP 5659)]
0x0804ca9e in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfa6e5d4) at gksu.c:1097
1097          if (!strcmp (tmp, "default"))

(gdb) bt
#0  0x0804ca9e in main (argc=4, argv=0xbfa6e5d4) at gksu.c:1097