[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#623492: plasma-desktop segfaults, prevents all (?) other kde apps from loading

[Rémy Sanchez]

On 04/20/2011 09:42 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> could you do a git bisect run on git://anongit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus to find
> the faulty commit?

Sure :

bb32afe831ca6e5913e7dd6035d1167c09c54e29 is the first bad commit
commit bb32afe831ca6e5913e7dd6035d1167c09c54e29
Author: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie__collabora.co.uk>
Date:   Thu Mar 3 16:29:17 2011 +0000

    dbus_message_iter_append_basic: validate booleans too

    Sending, for instance, ((dbus_bool_t) 666) is a programming error and
    should be diagnosed as such.

    Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16338
    Reviewed-by: Cosimo Alfarano <cosimo.alfarano at collabora.co.uk>

One funny thing however is that with hand-compiled dbus, it's kdeinit4
that crashes, and not plasma-desktop anymore. I've attached the stack
trace, and it seems pretty different (including the fact that this time,
there is a warning from dbus). Of course, after that everything from KDE
stops working.

I'm not quite sure however that I did use a correct method to compile
dbus. In short : make an archive of the commit to test, extract it over
the source package for 1.4.6, debuild the thing, install packages, and
then reboot. I guess that this skipped Debian-specific patches ?

--
Rémy
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