Bug#539624: segfaults if the system doesn't have hal
Rogério Brito
rbrito at ime.usp.br
Sun Aug 2 13:20:02 UTC 2009
Package: rhythmbox
Version: 0.12.3-1
Severity: important
Hi.
I just installed rhythmbox on my system (that's using only a window
manager and no desktop environment).
Unfortunately, rhythmbox segfaults when hal is not running:
,----
| rbrito at chagas:~$ rhythmbox &
| [1] 2056
| rbrito at chagas:~$
| (rhythmbox:2056): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: remote volume monitor with dbus name org.gtk.Private.HalVolumeMonitor is not supported
|
| ** (rhythmbox:2056): WARNING **: Failed to initialize hal : (null)
|
| process 2056: Attempt to remove filter function 0x7fc81a25dac0 user data 0x11cfae0, but no such filter has been added
| libhal.c 3126 : LibHalContext *ctx is NULL
|
| [1]+ Segmentation fault rhythmbox
| rbrito at chagas:~$
`----
This behavior is, of course, undesired, for some reasons:
* a program should not crash out of the blue;
* if hal is indeed a hard dependency, it should not be declared as a
recommends---this is, of course, a little mistake in packaging;
* hal is being declared deprecated for some time now;
* more importantly, it seems that there is a problem with a null pointer
as indicated above---this might lead to a security problem
(perhaps?).
As a side note, if possible, it would be quite welcome if there were a
rhythmbox-gtk package for those that have to survive with "weaker"
systems.
Thanks, Rogério Brito.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc5-1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages rhythmbox depends on:
ii dbus 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii gconf2 2.26.2-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii gnome-icon-t 2.26.0-1 GNOME Desktop icon theme
ii gstreamer0.1 0.10.23-3 GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii gstreamer0.1 0.10.13-1 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
ii gstreamer0.1 0.10.23-3 GStreamer plugins from the "base"
ii gstreamer0.1 0.10.15-2 GStreamer plugins from the "good"
ii gstreamer0.1 0.10.23-3 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pang
ii libatk1.0-0 1.26.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libavahi-cli 0.6.25-1 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-com 0.6.25-1 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-gli 0.6.25-1 Avahi glib integration library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.24.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbrasero-m 2.26.2-1 CD/DVD burning library for GNOME -
ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.8-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.16-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib 0.82-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libfontconfi 2.6.0-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-5 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-1 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.26.2-3 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-key 2.26.1-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome-med 2.26.0-1 runtime libraries for the GNOME me
ii libgnome2-0 2.26.0-1 The GNOME library - runtime files
ii libgpod4 0.7.2-1 library to read and write songs an
ii libgstreamer 0.10.23-3 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer 0.10.23-2 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.5-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhal1 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liblircclien 0.8.3-3 infra-red remote control support -
ii libmtp8 0.3.7-7 Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) libr
ii libmusicbrai 2.1.5-2 Second generation incarnation of t
ii libnotify1 [ 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.17-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0- 1.24.5-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libsoup-gnom 2.27.4-1 an HTTP library implementation in
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.27.4-1 an HTTP library implementation in
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtotem-plp 2.26.2-1 Totem Playlist Parser library - ru
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-13 userspace USB programming library
ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii python 2.5.4-2 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python-gnome 2.26.1-1 Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii python-gst0. 0.10.15-1 generic media-playing framework (P
ii python-gtk2 2.14.1-3 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii python-suppo 1.0.3 automated rebuilding support for P
ii python2.5 2.5.4-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages rhythmbox recommends:
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.25-1 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly 0.10.12-1+b1 GStreamer plugins from the "ugly"
pn gvfs-backends <none> (no description available)
pn hal <none> (no description available)
ii notification-daemon 0.4.0-1 a daemon that displays passive pop
pn yelp <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages rhythmbox suggests:
pn gnome-codec-install <none> (no description available)
pn gnome-control-center <none> (no description available)
ii gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.13-1 GStreamer plugins from the "bad" s
pn python-coherence <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
--
Rogério Brito : rbrito@{mackenzie,ime.usp}.br : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8
http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito : http://meusite.mackenzie.com.br/rbrito
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