Chris Burkhardt wrote:
My question in this particular case is, should bug reports be opened
against librsvg, strigi, and the others requesting that they not
directly allocate memory for the xmlEntity structure? I can take the
time to do it, if it should be done.
Well IHMO either a bug that t
Christian Jaeger wrote:
> (a) consider accessing library-internal types directly by using a
> header file of a library a bug if the library and the library consumer
> are to be packaged separately; since the way of packaging couldn't be
> safely foreseen by an application developper, this means, u
Chris Burkhardt wrote:
Thanks, Christian, for filing the report and spending your Saturday making stack
traces. I just upgraded to version 2.6.32.dfsg-3 of libxml2 from Unstable and it
works (thanks Mike!). Hopefully it will be in Lenny and Etch soon.
There has just been a new DSA 1631-1 ha
Christian Jaeger wrote:
> I didn't at first (I had first thought since it is "fixed" in testing
> already the libxml2 maintainers would already have taken care of it); in
> my self-reply I then Cc'd the member of the security team who made the
> security-fixed package (like I'm also doing now). Now
Christian Jaeger wrote:
Today I did the usual dist-upgrade for my "testing" install, and it
left me with a badly broken (from user's perspective) installation,
because basically all Gnome applications stopped working. After a bit
over 2 hours worth of investigation, I've found out how to solve
Chris Burkhardt wrote:
Hi Christian, thanks for the warning and solution.
After my dist-upgrade last night, gdm would not start (it gave me a "The
greeter program appears to be crashing" message, and never got to the
login screen). But I could start Xorg with 'startx' and all my Gnome
programs w
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Christian Jaeger wrote:
>> Today I did the usual dist-upgrade for my "testing" install, and it
>> left me with a badly broken (from user's perspective) installation,
>> because basically all Gnome applications stopped wor
Christian Jaeger wrote:
> Today I did the usual dist-upgrade for my "testing" install, and it
> left me with a badly broken (from user's perspective) installation,
> because basically all Gnome applications stopped working. After a bit
> over 2 hours worth of investigation, I've found out how to so
Christian Jaeger wrote:
Thanks in advance to the security team for fixing the fixes.
PS. in case it's needed here is some information:
- System is x86_64, core 2 duo
- see attached backtraces from two Gnome apps (xchat segfaulted too, as
did Ekiga iirc).
Christian.
#0 0x7f6038aa95c8 in
I realize that the suggestion I wrote about undoes a security fix. So,
don't do what I said, do something different (what about going outside
and enjoying a walk?). Well ok, the issue said to be fixed is only a DoS
(of course ironically it introduces another DoS ;).
Thanks in advance to the se
Today I did the usual dist-upgrade for my "testing" install, and it left
me with a badly broken (from user's perspective) installation, because
basically all Gnome applications stopped working. After a bit over 2
hours worth of investigation, I've found out how to solve the issue;
since I first
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