Thanks for that. Unfortunately I need it for AMD64 as well and need a
fix in the main ubuntu repositories due the the final products I build.
I did experiment with monkeypatching by using ctypes and trying to
change the function that way. Didn't quite succeed but will give it
another try.
I would much rather the ubuntu folks just push this fix out asap. It is
impossible to use python newt at all so they couldn't possibly make
things worse.
** Summary changed:
- python-newt scripts crash on exit
+ python-newt scripts crash
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: python-newt
- Python scripts using the python-newt extension module crash on exit when
- using Python 2.5. The crash is caused by an invalid pointer being
- passed to the C library function free() when the Python interpreter does
- its final module cleanup. The bug can be reproduced by running on of
- the example scripts included with python-newt:
+ Python scripts using the python-newt extension module crash when using
+ Python 2.5. The crash is caused by an invalid pointer being passed to
+ the C library function free() when any newt component (eg button, form,
+ label) is deleted. The bug can be reproduced by running one of the
+ example scripts included with python-newt:
python /usr/share/doc/python-newt/examples/popcorn.py
I was able to fix the problem by applying a fix from the Fedora Core 7
release of newt (0.52.5). The patch is appended below:
--- newt-0.52.2/snackmodule.c 2005-09-21 02:32:01.000000000 -0700
+++ newt-0.52.2.new/snackmodule.c 2007-04-27 16:11:29.000000000 -0700
@@ -924,8 +924,8 @@
Py_XDECREF (s->scs.cb);
Py_XDECREF (s->scs.data);
-
- PyMem_DEL(o);
+
+ PyObject_Free(o);
}
static PyObject * widgetAddCallback(snackWidget * s, PyObject * args) {
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python-newt scripts crash
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110880
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