Bug#314164: libgnomevfs2-0: evolution segfault in _gnome_vfs_drive_from_corba()
Sjoerd Simons
sjoerd@spring.luon.net (Sjoerd Simons), 314164@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:13:29 +0200
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:58:12PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> Package: libgnomevfs2-0
> Version: 2.10.1-4
> Severity: important
>
> With the new libgnomevfs2-0, evolution now segfaults on my system.
>
> To reproduce:
> 1) start a new message
> 2) Insert->Text File
> 3) SEGV
>
> _gnome_vfs_drive_from_corba is accessing the corba_drive pointer, without
> checking if it is NULL first (it is NULL in this backtrace).
Does this only happen in evolution or also with other programs when they want
to display the file selector (e.g. zenity --file-selection)
Sjoerd
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