On 2011-03-08 16:16:24 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> (08/03/2011): > > On 2011-03-08 11:31:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > [adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm] > > only remotely.
Yes, just in case Thomas got bug reports because of this. > Probably that stupid libxt memory corruption: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.devel/19675 Yes. > > Actually, not just XAUTHORITY, as $PATH was affected too ("xterm -e > > some_command" started by fvwm output an error message saying that > > some_command couldn't be found), and I suspect that the whole > > environment was removed or something similar. > > I wasn't able to reproduce this but I didn't try very long. Note that the command in question is in my $HOME/bin, thus not in the default $PATH. > I guess it'd be nice if you could try to apply the patch mentioned > above, getting rid of the one in debian/patches. I rebuilt libxt6 without changing anything, and the problem appeared as expected. Then I replaced the 01-revert-switch-to-xtasprintf.diff contents by diff --git a/src/Alloc.c b/src/Alloc.c index 67413ab..be643a8 100644 --- a/src/Alloc.c +++ b/src/Alloc.c @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ Cardinal XtAsprintf( if (len < sizeof(buf)) { strncpy(*new_string, buf, len); - new_string[len] = '\0'; + (*new_string)[len] = '\0'; } else { and rebuilt libxt6 again, and the problem was solved. So, I confirm that the problem was due to this memory corruption. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
