Bug#852082: gwc in testing crashes at startup

[Jaromír Mikeš]

2017-01-22 1:11 GMT+01:00 James Cowgill <jcowgill at debian.org>:

> Control: severity -1 grave
>

Hi,

sorry for slightly delayed answer :(


> On 21/01/17 14:18, Christian Grigis wrote:
> > Package: gwc
> > Version: 0.21.19~dfsg0-6
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Running 'gnome_wave_cleaner' from the testing package version
> > (0.21.19~dfsg0-6) crashes immediately at startup:
> >
> > $ gnome_wave_cleaner
> > Current stack limit: 8388608 bytes
> > Segmentation fault
>
> This bug is clearly RC. Jaromír, you did test this before uploading it
> right?
>

Actually I didn't as upload was only "debian packaging improvement" not new
upstream release
I was not expecting problems of this kind ... sorry


> [...]
> > The gdb backtrace gives:
> >
> > (gdb) run
> > Starting program: /home/glove/tmp/gwc-testing/gwc-0.21.19~dfsg0/gwc
> > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> > Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> libthread_db.so.1".
> > Current stack limit: 8388608 bytes
> >
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x00007ffff6e047f9 in g_type_is_a () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> libgobject-2.0.so.0
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x00007ffff6e047f9 in g_type_is_a () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> libgobject-2.0.so.0
> > #1  0x00007ffff7519084 in gtk_type_new () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
> > #2  0x000055555557223c in led_bar_new (segments=20, orientation=0) at
> gtkledbar.c:82
>
> The problem is here. led_bar_get_type returns an unsigned int, but
> gtk_type_new expects a "GtkType" which is an integer with the same size
> as a pointer. This code is going to need porting to work on 64-bit arches.
>

James I guess as it wouldn't be trivial to fix it by patch and we need to
this issue must be fixed upstream.
Am I right?

best regards

mira
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