Bug#539624: segfaults if the system doesn't have hal

[Rogério Brito]

tags 539624 +patch

On Aug 09 2009, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Of course, there was a NULL pointer dereference: the "devices" pointer
> is initialized to NULL at the top of the function and can never get
> assigned any value (well, this is the case here):
> 
> ,----
> | (...)
> | libhal.c 3126 : LibHalContext *ctx is NULL
> | rhythmbox: brasero-medium-monitor.c:451: brasero_medium_monitor_init: Assertion `devices != ((void *)0)' failed.
> | Aborted
> `----

OK. I just fixed this with the attached patch.

Applied, compiled, tested, working.  Please, apply.


Regards, Rogério Brito.

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