gkdebconf crashes immediatly after the splashscreen

[Gerhard Gaussling]

Package: gkdebconf
Version: 1.2.54
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Hi,
before reporting this to malone I want to discuss in this ML if it's
neccessary to file a bugreport against gkdebconf.

See the subject of this email, and the related output here:

$ strace gkdebconf
[...]
read(4, "Package: xserver-xorg\nStatus: in"..., 4096) = 1855
read(4, "\n", 4096)                     = 1
read(4, "", 4096)                       = 0
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
close(4)                                = 0
wait4(27929, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 27929
munmap(0x2aaaae736000, 4096)            = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

$ gdb gkdebconf
> run
received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 46912547125136 (LWP 23077)]
0x00002aaaabfb2405 in g_list_copy () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00002aaaabfb2405 in g_list_copy () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#1  0x0000000000404b0c in sections ()
#2  0x00000000004052fb in create_main_window ()
#3  0x0000000000404705 in main ()


System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers breezy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'breezy-updates'), (500, 'breezy-security'), (500, 'breezy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gkdebconf depends on:
ii  debconf                1.4.56ubuntu2     Debian configuration management sy
ii  gettext-base           0.14.5-2ubuntu2   GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  gksu                   1.3.0-1ubuntu11   graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-terminal [x-term 2.12.0-0ubuntu2   The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal-em 4:3.4.3-0ubuntu6  X terminal emulator for KDE
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.10.3-0ubuntu2   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.3.5-1ubuntu12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4            2.12.0-0ubuntu1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.8.3-0ubuntu1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.8.6-0ubuntu2.1  The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2              1:2.12.4-0ubuntu1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.10.1-0ubuntu1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  xterm                  203-0ubuntu4      X terminal emulator

gkdebconf recommends no packages.


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